I think we should stay stick with LTS releases (one main release per
year) and provide support only for that specific LTS. I think this is
what most of the market will do in the future. As we are seeing with
Java 9, it's nearly impossible to adapt Wicket to the "next" Java
without cutting deprecated technologies or without adapting to the new
behavior of Java standard libraries (like date time).
On 16/04/2018 11:52, Martijn Dashorst wrote:
All,
With the new release schedule of Java where they will (have)
release(d) Java 9, 10 and 11 in one year, what will we do with
Wicket's dependency on Java?
Will we move with the Long Term Support versions? AFAIK this will
require us to upgrade every year to a new major version.
Or will we stay with LTS-- as our major supported Java version?
If so, how do we work with deprecated technologies that we (or our
dependencies) use when they get removed, or Wicket plain stops working
on Java 10 (or Java 11), or stops building on one such version?
In the long run, I don't think it is possible for us to align Wicket
versions with major Java versions as we could in the previous years:
- wicket 1.5 -> Java 5 (actually Wicket 1.4, but who's counting)
- wicket 6 -> Java 6
- wicket 7 -> Java 7
- wicket 8 -> Java 8
would the next major version of Wicket be 11?
- wicket 11 -> Java 11?
Martijn
