I'm absolutely +1 on the advantages on the programming model that defining a JDK8 as a minimum JDK would give us. And like Nicolas, I also think JDK7 is not really worth it as 8 is.
And Jenkins is one of those tools that has somehow a lower barrier on that requirement upgrade, since for example the build JDK can a totally different one, or wouldn't impact say a ruby/C/whatever compiler anyway. Btw, I guess we own at least of those AIX installs, and JDK are actually generally not so that behind. JDK8 for AIX seems to be not GA *yet* but I'm sure IBM is working on it if not already out (found http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/jdk/beta/ for example). Sure, old platform like AIX 4 or 5.x wouldn't have those JDK supported, so I suppose there could be some Jenkins VeryLTS to keep Java 6 as it's now for say some months or even a year for only very important issues. That would give time for those platform a bit more time to provide the JDK8 port/version for their OS. 2014-09-24 19:42 GMT+02:00 Daniel Beck <[email protected]>: > > On 24.09.2014, at 11:48, Martin Kutter <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Just want to throw in that java 8 is not yet available on all platforms > > (like AIX, HP-UX and probably some other less frequently used commercial > > UNIXes). > > I checked the anonymous usage stats a few weeks ago: > Out of 93,400 installs, we know the master's OS for 85,200 of them. > 285 are AIX. 120 are HP-UX. 50 installs total on OpenBSD, Darwin, OS/400, > z/OS and NetBSD. > > Not relevant enough IMO if the advantages are significant. > > I can provide the queries I used if anyone wants to verify these. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Jenkins Developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > Baptiste <Batmat> MATHUS - http://batmat.net > Sauvez un arbre, > Mangez un castor ! nbsp;! > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
