On Sat, Oct 26, 2019 at 1:07 PM Gerald Henriksen <ghenr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sat, 26 Oct 2019 15:59:27 +0200, you wrote: > > >On Sat, Oct 26, 2019 at 03:53:28PM +0200, Jiri Vanek wrote: > >> any package can switch to jdk11, but sysem jdk should be jdk8, at least > >> for some more time... > > > > Any reasons? Defaulting to ancient software conflicts with our “First” > > foundation. > > Simple reason - while Oracle decided to move Java to a faster, time > based release cycle the Java community essentially shrugged the > proverbial shoulders and ignored Oracle. > > Much of the Java ecosystem is still only supported on Java 8, and if > you go to adoptopenjdk.net the default choice remains Java 8.
Kind of like perl, gcc, kernels, and python releases. Software updates are an inevitable part of software development. Then some excited people go "hey, I know, let's support multiple versions of critical software with a web of technical requirements and invent modules". Hilarity ensue, and many painful old lessons are being rehashed in *that* thread. But let's keep this one away from the "modularity" adventures. I'm afraid that Oracle inherited a lot of Sun's practices on software versioning when they bought Java. The version naming scheme, numbering scheme, and the release schedule, are inconsistent, unpredictable, and cannot be relied on from Oracle's announcements, Ergo, right now, Oracle is deprecating Java 8, and encouraging the current LTS, Java 11. Make no prodictions for the schedule or the next LTS release, this is *right now*. > Hadoop, Tomcat, etc. all still are only supported by their communities > on Java 8. > > So while it might be noble for Fedora to try and force the issue, the > likely result is that users needing Java will simply use a different > distribution while Fedora will get a bad repuation in the Java > community. This is unnecessary. The current consistent layout of parallel installed versions of Java releases in /usr/lib/jvm, with consistent release numbering, allows a predictable use of JAVA_HOME and of binary paths to permit the use of multiple Java releases on the same host. It's been working well this way for years. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
