On Sun, Sep 3, 2017 at 10:26 AM, Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> wrote:
> On 02/09/17 21:40, Rainer Jung wrote: > > Backporting some fixes and enhancements from TC trunk to 8.5.x would > > need to either require tcnative 1.2.14 or make the code more complex by > > catching UnsatisfiedLinkError etc. and converting into error messages. > > > > I don't remember very well, how we handled this in the past. Are we > > willing to require a very fresh tcnative release in a stable branch, or > > should we make the backport more complex and keep it version compatible, > > or would we just postpone the backport until the tcnative version is > > deemed to be old enough to become the required one? > > > > I would prefer the first option for simplicity, but it will not be the > > best for our users in terms of compatibility. > > We have increased the minimum version when necessary in the past. We > last did this in 2014 when we made 1.1.32 required for 8.0.x. We did > that shortly after the 1.1.32 release. > > I'd be happy increasing the minimum required version for 8.5.x to 1.2.14 > and the minimum recommended version to 1.2.14 for 8.0.x and 7.0.x. > > We might want to think about announcing End of Life for 1.1.x. Given > that 1.2.x really is a drop-in replacement for 1.1.x, I'm not sure there > would ever be another 1.1.x release anyway. > +1 to move to 1.2. Rémy
