Ditto what Sean said. There's no decision yet but I plan to recommend dropping Java 1.6 in Clojure 1.8. I expect we'll gather more input on it before it happens though.
Alex On Thursday, December 11, 2014 2:11:28 PM UTC-6, Sean Corfield wrote: > > 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.ma...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> 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://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fintellij-support.jetbrains.com%2Fentries%2F27854363-IDE-doesn-t-start-after-updating-to-Mac-OS-Yosemite-or-Mavericks&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNHdorfyit3D8ph7rbQ1UC3eS430AQ> > > > -- 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.
