It seems OK to me to update to Java 6 for now and get this to compile under java 9 for those folks who will try...
Gary On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 9:09 AM, Amey Jadiye <ameyjad...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for great insights Mark. > > On Wed, Jul 12, 2017, 9:28 PM Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> wrote: > > > On 12 July 2017 16:33:01 CEST, Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >Are there plans to require 1.7 for Tomcat anytime? Otherwise, it might > > >be > > >necessary to make a new major version of daemon eventually for Java 8 > > >or 9. > > > > Tomcat major versions are aligned with Java EE versions which in turn > have > > a minimum Java version. > > > > Tomcat supports 3 current versions in parallel so we currently have: > > > > Tomcat 9 - Java EE 8 - Java 8 > > Tomcat 8 - Java EE 7 - Java 7 > > Tomcat 7 - Java EE 6 - Java 6 > > > > Tomcat 7 support will continue until at least Java EE 9 is released. That > > is meant to be next year but there are no firm dates yet and experience > > suggests the Java EE 9 release date will slip. > > > > On that basis I expect Tomcat to need a Daemon that supports Java 6 for > at > > least 2 more years. > > > > Is there a user requirement driving an increase in the minimum Java > > version? If not, I suggest we stick with 6 for now. > > > > There is no user requirement , Commons daemon is still keeping minimum > dependency on java 1.5, we were thinking to move on minimum 1.6, nice to > hear there won't be any issue with tomcat since it's already on 1.6 > > For moving to much higher i.e. java 1.7 I'm sure daemon will take another > 2-3 year for keeping stability across projects. > > Regards, > Amey > > Mark > > > > > > > > > >Anyways, 1.6 minimum makes sense to me mainly due to Java 9's compiler > > >not > > >supporting Java 5 targets anymore. > > > > > >On 12 July 2017 at 09:19, Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> wrote: > > > > > >> On 11 July 2017 21:02:54 CEST, Amey Jadiye <ameyjad...@gmail.com> > > >wrote: > > >> >Hi Daemon Maintainers / All, > > >> > > > >> >Daemon seems to be still being maintained on svn, do we have any > > >plan > > >> >moving code base to git ? > > >> > > >> No preference on this. > > >> > > >> >As fact there is low activity in daemon no one thought of bumping > > >> >version > > >> >from 1.5 to 1.6 OR we are keeping it purposefully to 1.5 ? > > >> >shall we bump it minimum to 1.6 ? > > >> > > >> 1.6 is OK for Tomcat. Anything higher will cause problems. > > >> > > >> Mark > > >> > > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > > >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > >> > > >> > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > > > >
