Thanks for great insights Mark. On Wed, Jul 12, 2017, 9:28 PM Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> wrote:
> On 12 July 2017 16:33:01 CEST, Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com> wrote: > >Are there plans to require 1.7 for Tomcat anytime? Otherwise, it might > >be > >necessary to make a new major version of daemon eventually for Java 8 > >or 9. > > Tomcat major versions are aligned with Java EE versions which in turn have > a minimum Java version. > > Tomcat supports 3 current versions in parallel so we currently have: > > Tomcat 9 - Java EE 8 - Java 8 > Tomcat 8 - Java EE 7 - Java 7 > Tomcat 7 - Java EE 6 - Java 6 > > Tomcat 7 support will continue until at least Java EE 9 is released. That > is meant to be next year but there are no firm dates yet and experience > suggests the Java EE 9 release date will slip. > > On that basis I expect Tomcat to need a Daemon that supports Java 6 for at > least 2 more years. > > Is there a user requirement driving an increase in the minimum Java > version? If not, I suggest we stick with 6 for now. > There is no user requirement , Commons daemon is still keeping minimum dependency on java 1.5, we were thinking to move on minimum 1.6, nice to hear there won't be any issue with tomcat since it's already on 1.6 For moving to much higher i.e. java 1.7 I'm sure daemon will take another 2-3 year for keeping stability across projects. Regards, Amey Mark > > > > > >Anyways, 1.6 minimum makes sense to me mainly due to Java 9's compiler > >not > >supporting Java 5 targets anymore. > > > >On 12 July 2017 at 09:19, Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> wrote: > > > >> On 11 July 2017 21:02:54 CEST, Amey Jadiye <ameyjad...@gmail.com> > >wrote: > >> >Hi Daemon Maintainers / All, > >> > > >> >Daemon seems to be still being maintained on svn, do we have any > >plan > >> >moving code base to git ? > >> > >> No preference on this. > >> > >> >As fact there is low activity in daemon no one thought of bumping > >> >version > >> >from 1.5 to 1.6 OR we are keeping it purposefully to 1.5 ? > >> >shall we bump it minimum to 1.6 ? > >> > >> 1.6 is OK for Tomcat. Anything higher will cause problems. > >> > >> Mark > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > >> > >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > >
