> At this point I feel like we should already be > targeting Java 10 at a minimum. Barring some surprises from other people supporting 10 longer-term, wouldn't that be coupling C*'s 4.0 release with a runtime that's likely EOL shortly after?
On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 11:52 AM, Jonathan Haddad <j...@jonhaddad.com> wrote: > Java 8 was marked as EOL in the middle of last year, I hope we wouldn't > require it for Cassandra 4. At this point I feel like we should already be > targeting Java 10 at a minimum. > > Personally I'd prefer not to tie our releases to any vendor / product / > package's release schedule. > > > On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 6:49 AM Jason Brown <jasedbr...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I'm coming to be on-board with #3. >> >> One thing to watch out for (we can't account for it now) is how our >> dependencies choose to move forward. If we need to upgrade a jar (netty, >> for example) due to some leak or vulnerability, and it only runs on a >> higher version, we may be forced to upgrade the base java version. Like, I >> said we can't possibly foresee these things, and we'll just have to make a >> hard decision if the situation arises, but just something to keep in mind. >> >> >> On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 5:39 AM, Josh McKenzie <jmcken...@apache.org> >> wrote: >> >> > > >> > > 3) Release 4.0 for Java 8, *optionally* branch 4.1 for Java 11 later >> > >> > This seems like the best of our bad options, with the addition of >> > "optionally". >> > >> > >> > On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 8:12 AM, Gerald Henriksen <ghenr...@gmail.com> >> > wrote: >> > >> > > On Fri, 23 Mar 2018 04:54:23 +0000, you wrote: >> > > >> > > >I think Michael is right. It would be impossible to make everyone >> follow >> > > >such a fast release scheme, and supporting it will be pressured onto >> the >> > > >various distributions, M$ and Apple. >> > > >On the other hand https://adoptopenjdk.net has already done a lot of >> > the >> > > >work and it's already rumoured they may take up backporting of >> > > security/bug >> > > >fixes. I'd fully expect a lot of users to collaborate around this (or >> > > >similar), and there's no reason we couldn't do our part to contribute. >> > > >> > > A posting on Reddit yesterday from someone from adoptopenjdk claimes >> > > that they will be doing LTS releases starting with Java 11, and there >> > > should be updates to their website to reflect that soon: >> > > >> > > https://www.reddit.com/r/java/comments/86ce66/java_long_term_support/ >> > > >> > > So I guess a wait and see to what they commit could be worthwhile. >> > > >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@cassandra.apache.org >> > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@cassandra.apache.org >> > > >> > > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@cassandra.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@cassandra.apache.org
