On 05/10/2015 11:08, Michael Dürig wrote: > > Hi, > > I was wondering whether we should/could/want to drop support for Java > 6 in Oak. If we keep supporting it, what would be a realistic time line? Personally I'd like to drop it. Nevertheless it will be problematic (as Julian already pointed out) to backport anything as soon as you start using any code construct/functionality that is not available in 6. Speaking of 6 VS 7 I don't recall as big changes on these aspects as it is 7 VS 8 but still it will be problematic.
I think if we start reasoning now on a strategy we can adopt (ie: no backports in case), and we announce it properly for any client using Oak, we can deprecate java 6 starting from Oak 1.6. Read it as after the release of Oak 1.4 we start not supporting any more java 6. Davide
