I know some companies that are still on Java 8. I don’t think we should drop Java 8 or 9 support yet.
Julian > On Jul 2, 2019, at 4:24 PM, Stamatis Zampetakis <zabe...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Good point Vladimir. Given that Java 9 reached already the end of its life > I think we should remove it from our CI. > > Other than that I am curious to understand why the problem appeared now to > better prevent such situations in the future. > > On Tue, Jul 2, 2019 at 3:22 PM Vladimir Sitnikov < > sitnikov.vladi...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Just a side note: do we really need/want to support Java 9? >> >> What if we just skip Java9 and stick with Java 8, 11, and later EAP >> eversions? >> Does anybody really uses Java 9 in production? >> What's the purpose of supporting that? >> >> Frankly speaking, "Java 9" related failures are a pure noise to me. >> The mail is generic like "Calcite build fails", and it really sad it >> notifies lots of people as "build failure" for such a tiny event (==Java9 >> failed somehow). >> >> Vladimir >>
