+1 for Java 7, -1 for Java 8 (at this time). Reason for that is that I don't believe there is any "normal" way for RHEL5 servers to get Java 8 and it will not be hitting its "end of production" phase until March 2017 and so I'm guessing there's still a lot out there.
Richard. On Wed, 25 Mar 2015 at 08:07 Jesse Glick <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 6:41 AM, nicolas de loof > <[email protected]> wrote: > > I can't see major benefit in requiring Java 7 from a developer point of > view (some syntactic sugar, few new API > > java.nio.file.* is actually rather important for Jenkins code, > particularly in core, since it uses the filesystem so heavily. > > -- > 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]. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > msgid/jenkinsci-dev/CANfRfr1%2BwP_j6S7_RtoLH_SYTjdO8Bs- > QxEod520hhe5xKv7AQ%40mail.gmail.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/CAMui9471xSn_NknofC4H%2BaScs_j7oi%2B%2BpJcvEsz59CYgX81jdA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
