Hi, On 05/10/15 12:19, "Julian Reschke" wrote: On 2015-10-05 12:08, Michael Dürig wrote: 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?
I assume this is about "trunk", not 1.2 or 1.0, right? As much as I'd love to drop it, given the amount of backporting we currently do this doesn't seem like a good idea. I think we should drop support for running Oak 1.3.x on Java 6. At least the Oracle JDK 6 version is not supported anymore and does not receive any security updates. We could still restrict Oak to the Java 6 language level and runtime library features to make sure we can backport fixes. E.g. Apache Sling is using the animal sniffer tool to check compatibility with earlier Java versions. The builds on Jenkins also fail frequently with Java 6: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/jackrabbit-oak-dev/201510.mbox/%[email protected]%3E Regards Marcel
