I agree with this completely, it's also why moving to git is so important.
On 01/13/2018 08:33 AM, Pascal Schumacher wrote:
Am 13.01.2018 um 01:31 schrieb Gilles:
On Fri, 12 Jan 2018 21:51:58 +0100, Pascal Schumacher wrote:
imho we should drop support for java 6 and make every component java 7+
Why?
Imho old java versions discourage contributions. Java 7 was released
in 2011 8 (and Java 8 in 2014), so there is an increasing number of
developers who never used older versions. Why force volunteers to work
harder to stay Java 6 compatible when volunteering is supposed to be fun?
Support for Java 6 (and even Java 7) is decreasing everywhere. E.g.
current maven versions (and maven plugin versions) required Java 7
(plugin versions supporting Java 6 often do not work on Java 9).
Current travis VMs do not support build on Java 6...
Just my two cents.
Cheers,
Pascal
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