On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 3:46 AM, nicolas de loof <[email protected]> wrote:
> Lack of a recent JDK on some exotic systems (*) was already a blocker for > Java 6 upgrade, that's a real issue, but on the other side we can't stuck > to java 5 just because SCO-Unix don't have a better JDK. > > As suggested by Dominik, I think starting a 2.x branch to require java 8 > would make sense. Springframework major releases were driven by minimal JDK > updates, for the same reason, as this is the main compatibility breaker > form a user point of view. > > > (*) I wonder anyone tried to build OpenJDK on those platforms, even not > officially supported > I don't know if you consider it exotic, but FreeBSD is definitely an "unsupported" platform, but OpenJDK 6, 7, and 8 have been ported to it. I operate https://jenkins.freebsd.org which is running Jenkins on OpenJDK 7, on FreeBSD 9 and FreeBSD 10. -- Craig -- 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.
