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On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 6:32 AM, Rick Hillegas <rick.hille...@oracle.com> wrote: > Please vote on the following proposed policy for supported platforms. The > polls close at 5:00 pm San Francisco time on Monday September 15. > > A) The 10.12 release notes will tell users that 10.12 is the last release > which supports Java 6. > > B) The 10.13 release will support Java 9, 8, and 7 as well as Java 8 > compact profile 2. After releasing 10.12, the development trunk will no > longer support Java 6. > > C) We expect that maintenance releases on a branch will continue to > support the same Java versions as the initial feature release cut from that > branch. We will document this on the wiki. > > D) Developers will need to keep in mind the porting implications of using > modern JVM features in code which may need to be reworked to run on older > JVMs. Some explanation will be helpful when exploiting a modern language > feature for the first time. > > Adopting this policy would result in the following changes to the 10.13 > trunk: > > I) Removing build support for Java 6. > > II) Purging user doc references to Java 6. > > We do not anticipate that this policy will require any changes to user > code. > > Further discussion of this proposal can be found on the following email > thread: http://apache-database.10148.n7.nabble.com/Java-6-vs-7- > td141757.html > >
