My thought is that it would be premature regardless of java 6 eol. As long
as there are deployments out there using java 6, and i know for certain
that there are many, java 6 is still relevant. To me the new APIs in java 7
aren't worth forcing users to upgrade. Then again perhaps it is time for
another poll.
As Andrea says upping the java runtime requirement is different than
officially supporting it. Ideally rather than just jump right to making
jdk7 the minimum requirement we would have a full branch lifecycle it as
supported. And then potentially talk about upping the minimum requirement.
Next step in that regard would be getting stable jdk7 build infrastructure
in place. Andrea proposed we set up something with travisci and I second
that. I'll see if i can put some cycles into helping out with that.
On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 7:03 AM, Andrea Aime <andrea.a...@geo-solutions.it>wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 3:01 PM, Brett Walker
> <brett.wal...@geometryit.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi Andrea & Jody,
>>
>> I was reading GEOT-4400. Again Java 7 was mentioned. GEOT-4532 also
>> mentions Java 7.
>>
>> Can I add that Java 8 will be released around March 2014.
>>
>> Java 6 is sounding a little ancient.
>>
>
> That said, major java frameworks are still supporting java 6 (Spring,
> Hibernate and so on).
> Or not?
>
>
>>
>> +1 for moving to Java 7 in GeoTools 11
>>
>
> There is a difference between having java 7 as the minimum, and officially
> support it.
> I'd like to go for the second if possible, but also hear the GeoTools and
> GeoServer communities
> before taking any decision.
> How many users are we going to lose because of the switch?
>
> Cheers
> Andrea
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