On Jan 13, 2018 6:33 AM, "Pascal Schumacher" <pascalschumac...@gmx.net> wrote:
Am 13.01.2018 um 01:31 schrieb Gilles: > On Fri, 12 Jan 2018 21:51:58 +0100, Pascal Schumacher wrote: > >> imho we should drop support for java 6 and make every component java 7+ >> > > Why? > Imho old java versions discourage contributions. Java 7 was released in 2011 8 (and Java 8 in 2014), so there is an increasing number of developers who never used older versions. Why force volunteers to work harder to stay Java 6 compatible when volunteering is supposed to be fun? +1 Support for Java 6 (and even Java 7) is decreasing everywhere. E.g. current maven versions (and maven plugin versions) required Java 7 (plugin versions supporting Java 6 often do not work on Java 9). Current travis VMs do not support build on Java 6... My sentiments exactly! :-) Gary Just my two cents. Cheers, Pascal --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
