OK, so here is our policy: The development line of Maven core should require a minimum JRE version > that is no older than 18 months after the end of Oracle's public updates > for that JRE version at the time that the first version of the development > line was released, but may require a higher minimum JRE version if other > requirements dictate a higher JRE version
(Source: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/Version+number+policy) OK, so it's a draft policy... but we've all been silent on the draft, so lazy consensus! Now in http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/eol-135779.html they state: after April 2015, Oracle will not post further updates of Java SE 7 to its > public download sites So per our (draft) version number policy, we can keep Java 7 as the baseline :-( or we can choose to upgrade code to Java 8 (because we want to use lambdas... there's a requirement) Dang! And I was hoping for a hard and fast "let's just drop Java 7" line... oh well... we might have to argue this one out On 29 November 2015 at 23:14, Stephen Connolly < [email protected]> wrote: > w00t new minor and we get to drop Java 7 > > > On Sunday 29 November 2015, Tibor Digana <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> +1: go for it >> >> On Sun, Nov 29, 2015 at 4:27 PM, Hervé BOUTEMY <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> > Now that Maven 3.3.9 is out and seems pretty stable, any objection to >> > switch >> > to 3.4.0-SNAPSHOT? >> > >> > I want to merge MNG-5878 new feature... >> > >> > Regards, >> > >> > Hervé >> > >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >> > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >> > >> > >> >> >> -- >> Cheers >> Tibor >> > > > -- > Sent from my phone >
