On 18.05.2018 14:34, Stefan Sperling wrote: > On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 08:22:46AM -0400, James McCoy wrote: >> On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 09:46:41AM +0200, Stefan Sperling wrote: >>> Elsewhere in this discussion thread it was suggested to raise the >>> minimum JDK version requirement to Java 1.8. >>> Your statement "please keep backward compatibility with older JDKs" >>> could mean anything between "please leave everything as it is now" to >>> "bumping the minimum requirement to Java 1.8 is absolutely fine with me". >>> >>> This requirement would be introduced for Subversion 1.11. >>> Can you explain which versions of OS X / JDK you expect to support when >>> Subversion 1.11 will be released in probably 2 to 3 years from now? >> No one would be able to build the stable release of Subversion with JDK >> 10 for 2 to 3 years? >> >> Supporting both pre-8 and post-8 JDKs wouldn't be trivial. I've been >> working under the assumption that we can bump up to JDK 8 and backport >> that change to 1.10. >> >> If that's not going to be the case, should my current work still go to >> trunk? Then someone can find the time to adapt things to also work with >> pre-8 JDK? > I think you should aim to proceed with your plan as it was. > If anyone has strong objections to this, they should be constructive and > try to provide an alternative solution without pushing an additional > burden on you.
Given that Java 6 and 7 are obsolete ... I think it won't hurt to make Java 8 the oldest supported version on the 1.10.x branch. -- Brane
