Re: Moving Java Forward Faster

2017-09-07 Thread Andrew Wang
I read Mark Reinhold's blog [1] and overall like this change to release cadence. It introduces 3-year LTS releases along with the 6-month feature release cadence. We'd probably stick with the LTS releases. The blog says they only plan to support each LTS for 3 years though. I'd like this to instea

Re: Moving Java Forward Faster

2017-09-07 Thread Sean Busbey
ugh. this will be rough for cross-jdk compatibility, unless they update the target jre options of javac to support more than the last 2 major versions. > Question: Does GPL licensing of the JDK/JVM affect us negatively? Nope. all the openjdk bits we rely on were already going to be under the GPLv

Re: Moving Java Forward Faster

2017-09-07 Thread larry mccay
Interesting. Thanks for sharing this, Allen. Question: Does GPL licensing of the JDK/JVM affect us negatively? On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 10:14 AM, Allen Wittenauer wrote: > > > > Begin forwarded message: > > > > From: "Rory O'Donnell" > > Subject: Moving Java Forward Faster > > Date: September 7