On Fri, 22 Mar 2019 at 21:27, Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Ensuring projects are source compatible with 1.8 but buildable and > usable using Java 11 or whatever the latest release is at the time > (currently 12) seems like a good compromise for most of the libraries. > I wouldn't require 9+ in anything unless it's pointless for earlier > releases of Java or if it's necessary to continue the logical path of > development by supporting new APIs.
I would go a bit further and say it's counter-productive to update to a new version of Java just for the sake of it. If extensive changes are being made, and these require the next version, then OK. But updating to the next version of Java and only making a few minor changes before the next release seems wrong. Note that Oracle extended support for Java 6 only just ended (Dec 2018) Java 7 has extended support until July 2022. https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/java-se-support-roadmap.html > On Fri, 22 Mar 2019 at 07:30, Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 10:29 PM Rob Tompkins <chtom...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > On Mar 21, 2019, at 10:22 PM, Bernd Eckenfels <e...@zusammenkunft.net> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > Nearly all vendors I have seen announced to follow voluntarily or > > > commercial guaranteed the OpenJDK LTS versions (11, some 8) (Redhat, > > > adoptopenjdk, Azul, ojdkbuild, sapengine, Amazon, Ubuntu/Debian, suse). > > > Actually only Oracle‘s OpenJDK is not. > > > > > > > > > > Cool. Then pardon my being tied to a vendor. > > > > > > Regardless, I suppose the question remains the same though right? We > > > should be compatible with both 8 and 11. > > > > > > > I think we should generalize this to Oracle and anyone's LTS version for > > Java >= 8. > > > > Gary > > > > > > > -Rob > > > > > > > Gruss > > > > Bernd > > > > -- > > > > http://bernd.eckenfels.net > > > > > > > > ________________________________ > > > > Von: Rob Tompkins <chtom...@gmail.com> > > > > Gesendet: Freitag, März 22, 2019 2:59 AM > > > > An: Commons Developers List > > > > Betreff: Re: [all] What versions of java do we support? > > > > > > > > Is there LTS with those other imolementations? > > > > > > > >> On Mar 21, 2019, at 9:43 PM, Ralph Goers <ralph.go...@dslextreme.com> > > > wrote: > > > >> > > > >> Why are you singling out Corretto? What about AdoptOpenJDK or RedHat’s > > > OpenJDK support? The ASF is supposed to be vendor neutral. > > > >> > > > >> Ralph > > > >> > > > >>> On Mar 21, 2019, at 11:05 AM, Rob Tompkins <chtom...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >>> > > > >>> Hello all, > > > >>> > > > >>> I would think that with the Amazon Corretto play at long term support > > > for java 8 and 11 we would want to build using the latest version of the > > > Corretto 8-JDK, and we would want to ensure that we work for Java 11. > > > Regarding later versions of Java I’m a tad agnostic currently as we are > > > less certain with their stability. > > > >>> > > > >>> What are folks’ thoughts? > > > >>> > > > >>> -Rob > > > >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > >>> 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 > > > >> > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > -- > Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
