Java 8 has only been out for less than a year. There is still a sizable percentage of groups that have not converted up to Java 8 for myriad reasons. While I was surprised that we are requiring backwards compatibility with the ten year old Java 5 I think jumping all the way to requiring Java 8 may be a bit too much of a stretch. I would vote for a minimum required version of Java 7 with the ability to run in Java 8. I wish I could find metrics to quantify the penetration of each of the JDKs, but my gut says Java 7 would a reasonable cutoff.
On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 8:31 PM, Gilles <gil...@harfang.homelinux.org> wrote: > Raising this issue once again. >>> Are we going to upgrade the requirement for the next major release? >>> >>> [ ] Java 5 >>> [ ] Java 6 >>> [ ] Java 7 >>> [ ] Java 8 >>> [ ] Java 9 >>> >> > Counts up to now: > > Java 7 -> 2 > Java 7 or 8 -> 2 > Java 8 -> 2 > > Any more opionions? > > Gilles > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > >
