I think Rebel Labs or Plumbr have some metrics about JDK usage. On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 10:21 PM, Hank Grabowski <h...@applieddefense.com> wrote:
> Java 8 has only been out for less than a year. There is still a sizable > percentage of groups that have not converted up to Java 8 for myriad > reasons. While I was surprised that we are requiring backwards > compatibility with the ten year old Java 5 I think jumping all the way to > requiring Java 8 may be a bit too much of a stretch. I would vote for a > minimum required version of Java 7 with the ability to run in Java 8. I > wish I could find metrics to quantify the penetration of each of the JDKs, > but my gut says Java 7 would a reasonable cutoff. > > On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 8:31 PM, Gilles <gil...@harfang.homelinux.org> > wrote: > > > Raising this issue once again. > >>> Are we going to upgrade the requirement for the next major release? > >>> > >>> [ ] Java 5 > >>> [ ] Java 6 > >>> [ ] Java 7 > >>> [ ] Java 8 > >>> [ ] Java 9 > >>> > >> > > Counts up to now: > > > > Java 7 -> 2 > > Java 7 or 8 -> 2 > > Java 8 -> 2 > > > > Any more opionions? > > > > Gilles > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > > > > -- - OCPJP7 (90%) - OCAJP7 (93%) - Java and Big Data Enthusiast
