Hi Sebb, Here's the email from Donald (from Oracle). He's not a member of this list and given his (long list) of responsibilities I'd guess it's best if I act as a messenger for him.
Regards, Kirk Begin forwarded message: > From: Donald Smith <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Moving to Java 1.6 for a future JMeter release? > Date: 28 February, 2012 10:33:42 PM GMT+01:00 > To: Kirk Pepperdine <[email protected]> > Cc: JMeter Users List <[email protected]> > > I can't really comment on HP's plans for OpenVMS. I will, however, point > them to this thread and perhaps they can comment. > > No worries on the "lateness" comment, we've heard worse ;) > > The fact is, I think people are uncomfortable with migration because it's > been a while since we've had to. We're out of practice. But back in the > 1.2->3->4->5->6 days, this was pretty routine. We've done our best to codify > the time-lines as we really hope 8, 9 and 10 come out in very predictable > cycles, so we need to get back into practice. Here's the guidelines: > > (a) 3 years after a major release has been made generally available, > (b) 1 year after a subsequent major release, > (c) six months after a subsequent major release has been established as the > default JRE. > > - Don > > On 26/02/2012 8:30 AM, Kirk Pepperdine wrote: >> Hi Sebb, >> >> I'm not sure what HP is up to w.r.t Java. It used to be that they took the >> Sun source, juiced it up a wee bit and.... Maybe Donald can comment, if not >> directly to the list but to either you or myself which we can repost. >> >> And Donald, before you object to the lateness comment, no, it wasn't >> Oracle's fault ;-), Oracle delivered perfectly on their projected schedule >> for which we are thankful! >> >> Regards, >> Kirk >> >> On 2012-02-26, at 2:00 PM, sebb wrote: >> >>> On 26 February 2012 05:17, Kirk Pepperdine<[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>>> 1.6 is soon to be EOL. My guess is (and we can ask Donald Smith from >>>> Oracle) the only thing keeping 1.6 from being EOL'ed is the lateness of >>>> the 1.7 and the fact that the Mac port has still not been GA'ed. >>> BTW, there are currently no versions of Java 7 for some other OSes, >>> including OpenVMS (HP). >>> [Not really relevant to JMeter, as it is more likely to be run on a >>> different OS] >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >>> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >>>
