On 11/17/2015 02:17 PM, Kay Schenk wrote:
> We seem to have a number of numer of Java related discussions of
> late. Here's another one -- the Java version we're using for builds.
>
> Java 6 went out of update status quite some time ago -- Feb. 2013 --
> and this is still being used for our Linux builds, and Windows
> builds if our current binaries are produced with the same
> configuration as the buildbot configurations.
oops! an errate from me. Java 7 is used for Windows builds. And I
don't know what is used for Mac.
>
> Java 7 reached end-of-life in April, 2015.
>
> Yesterday, I installed Java 8 -- openjdk version "1.8.0_65" -- on my
> CentOS 6.7 (32 bit) and built. Testing resulted in OK results for
> the little I did. I was concerned about the Base portion with the
> installed hsqldb but so far everything is OK.
>
> Is anyone else on other platforms using Java 8 for successful
> building and testing? Windows builders? Mac builders? Others? Given
> that in our next release, we will be out of the 4.1.x branch (I
> think), I would think we could jump up to Java 8. I would expect
> that our users would be on Java 8 already.
>
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