I vote Java 7. We haven't been able to upgrade all our infrastructure to Java 8 yet because of a few issues. One of which could be fixed by someone from Commons Dev cutting a new release of BCEL. The last one got voted down, but I have a patch for the issues that blocked the release here: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BCEL-186
On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 2:13 PM, Ole Ersoy <ole.er...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 01/16/2015 09:08 AM, Gilles wrote: > >> On Fri, 16 Jan 2015 15:16:16 +0100, Emmanuel Bourg wrote: >> >>> Le 16/01/2015 13:20, Gilles a écrit : >>> >>> I'm interested to know more about this. >>>> Where can I find information? Do you have links? >>>> >>> >>> Sure, Andrew Haley from Red Hat announced [1] two years ago that OpenJDK >>> 6 would still be supported, and we can expect the same support for >>> OpenJDK 7 in the future. >>> >>> Also the installation stats [2] for Debian show that OpenJDK 6 is still >>> strong, about twice OpenJDK 7. And on Ubuntu [3] it's a 10x factor. So >>> two years after the official EOL of Java 6 it's far from dead on the >>> server side. >>> >>> Emmanuel Bourg >>> >>> >>> [1] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk6-dev/2013-March/ >>> 002890.html >>> >> >> Any more recent updates on the "hopes" mentioned there? >> >> [2] >>> >>> https://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=sun-java6- >>> jre+openjdk-6-jre+openjdk-7-jre+openjdk-8-jre&show_ >>> installed=on&want_legend=on&want_ticks=on&from_date=&to_ >>> date=&hlght_date=&date_fmt=%25Y-%25m&beenhere=1 >>> >> >> Nice; thanks. >> Did you notice how the global picture seems to change when "jdk" replaces >> "jre" in the request? >> [Not counting the yet insignificant figures for Java 8, but if the trend >> will be similar...] >> >> [3] http://popcon.ubuntu.com/by_inst >>> >> >> Interesting: >> 193 votes for "libcommons-math-java" >> 0 vote for "libcommons-math3-java" >> >> What would one conclude from that? >> > One of the issues with linux repositories is that some, for example > Fedora, have a policy that only one version of a library is allowed in the > distribution. So if it's easier to stick with "libcommons-math-java", > because it does the job, and is already packaged, then that's what the > packagers are going to want to do. > > I suspect most java developers would pull in their own version of math. > > Ole > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > -- about.me/benmccann
