Is that even possible? On Apr 2, 2015 11:45 PM, "Marcel Offermans" <marcel.offerm...@luminis.nl> wrote:
> Hello Niclas, > > I like making this a two step approach. I guess I would start using Java 8 > and have its compiler produce Java 7 compatible bytecode for now and then, > a few releases later, start leveraging Java 8. > > Greetings, Marcel > > On 2 Apr 2015 at 22:01:02, Niclas Hedhman (nic...@hedhman.org) wrote: > > Oracle is really aggressive in pushing the "HEAD" of us "freeloaders" who > doesn't want to pay for the support. What they might not realize is that; > As ASF projects are forced to higher versions, the whole enterprise world > will have to follow suit very quickly and the revenue might not be as high > as Oracle expects (from looking at past upgrade speeds)... > > Well, I like Java 8 so much, that I am all in favor of Java 8, but > typically I would recommend; > > Step 1) Make it Java 8 compatible, and run the CI on both Java 7 and Java > 8 for a while. Release artifacts in Java 7 format. > > Step 2) Allow ACE to use Java 8 features internally, drop Java 7 support > totally, ship in Java 8 byte code format. > > Not sure what is a reasonable time period in between, but my guess 2 > releases or so would be adequate... ;-) > > Niclas > > On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 10:45 PM, Marcel Offermans < > marcel.offerm...@luminis.nl> wrote: > > > Hey all, > > > > As previously announced on Oracle’s roadmap, they will stop updating > Java > > 7 [1] as of this month. As a consequence, I think we should discuss > moving > > Apache ACE to Java 8. My first question is, does anybody object to that > > (then this is the time to speak up)? > > > > Greetings, Marcel > > > > > > [1] > > > http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/eol-135779.html#Java6-end-public-updates > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Niclas Hedhman, Software Developer > http://www.qi4j.org - New Energy for Java > >
