Java 6 has been EOL for nearly two years. Java 7’s EOL is currently just four months away. Given that Clojure 1.7 is not yet "gold" and 1.8 will likely be a year away (based on previous releases), it seems reasonable to plan to drop Java 6 support three years after it was EOL’d. A quarter of Clojure’s users are still working with 1.5.1 or earlier so staying on Clojure 1.7 for a year or two after 1.8 ships doesn’t seem like a big issue.
I’m stunned that JetBrains don’t yet properly support Java 7 or Java 8 - we’ve been on Java 8 for development for ages and about half of our production systems have been upgraded to Java 8 over the last three months. Sean > On Dec 11, 2014, at 11:31 AM, Colin Fleming <colin.mailingl...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > In a future Clojure release (post 1.7) we will drop support for Java 1.6 > > Please don't. That will mean that Cursive will be stuck on Clojure 1.7 until > at least Java 9, and probably later. JDK 6 is still the only recommended JVM > for running IntelliJ on the Mac due to significant bugs which prevent many > users (including me) from upgrading. All IntelliJ plugins for the moment have > to be built for Java 6 because of this. Many of these bugs have fix versions > of JDK 9 but who knows when they'll ever actually make it in. Rumour has it > that JetBrains are considering releasing their own patched JDK because of > this. > > See: > https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/entries/27854363-IDE-doesn-t-start-after-updating-to-Mac-OS-Yosemite-or-Mavericks > > <https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/entries/27854363-IDE-doesn-t-start-after-updating-to-Mac-OS-Yosemite-or-Mavericks> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
