GitHub user doleron added a comment to the discussion: Which is the minimal Java version plc4j should support
Hi @chrisdutz ! > In the past we have supported Java 8 and while in general I would say: Yes, > more users are better", the past has shown, that more users just means more > work for us ;-) While in other regions of the IT world usually more users > brings in more contributors, for some reason in the automation space more > people just means more work. They open issues, and if you don't fix them with > topmost priority, they close the issue, complaining about how shitty support > is. I can imagine. This kind of user is disgusting! > > We just decided to invest our available resources better. Because keeping > things compatible with Java 8 cost's time ... There are many dependencies, > that no longer support Java 8. There usually are CVEs and other > vulnerabilities and incompatabilities when sticking with these ... if we > stuck with these old versions, we'd have to invest time into finding > workarounds, ensuring CVEs for these old libs don't effect the codebase. This > is all time we then wouldn't have to work on other things. So we decided to > give up on Java 8 and rather move forward. > > After all ... we asked several times: "Does anyone need Java 8" and I think > we got only one person actually saying that. All others "just immagine that > it would be better" without actually saying it. > > So as long as not a significant amount of people/companies publicly admit > that they are using PLC4X and could use that ... as going back would require > work ... work that's totally not fun ... also being wiling to finance the > work on it, I see no chance, that we'll be going back. At least I will not do > that. > > In other projects, I even recommended, that providing a Java 8 backward > compatible fork might be something someone would be willing to maintain as a > commercial alternative. This way the costs of maintaining the super-old Java > support are covered by the people causing this need because they want to save > the money of updating Java. Perfect!. In general, I recommend forgetting all the old stuff such as C++ 11, java 1.8, and Python 2 (God who uses Python 2 today?). Thus, I totally agree. Java 11 all the way. GitHub link: https://github.com/apache/plc4x/discussions/1059#discussioncomment-9979385 ---- This is an automatically sent email for dev@plc4x.apache.org. To unsubscribe, please send an email to: dev-unsubscr...@plc4x.apache.org
