Ensuring projects are source compatible with 1.8 but buildable and usable using Java 11 or whatever the latest release is at the time (currently 12) seems like a good compromise for most of the libraries. I wouldn't require 9+ in anything unless it's pointless for earlier releases of Java or if it's necessary to continue the logical path of development by supporting new APIs.
On Fri, 22 Mar 2019 at 07:30, Gary Gregory <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 10:29 PM Rob Tompkins <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > On Mar 21, 2019, at 10:22 PM, Bernd Eckenfels <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > > Nearly all vendors I have seen announced to follow voluntarily or > > commercial guaranteed the OpenJDK LTS versions (11, some 8) (Redhat, > > adoptopenjdk, Azul, ojdkbuild, sapengine, Amazon, Ubuntu/Debian, suse). > > Actually only Oracle‘s OpenJDK is not. > > > > > > > Cool. Then pardon my being tied to a vendor. > > > > Regardless, I suppose the question remains the same though right? We > > should be compatible with both 8 and 11. > > > > I think we should generalize this to Oracle and anyone's LTS version for > Java >= 8. > > Gary > > > > -Rob > > > > > Gruss > > > Bernd > > > -- > > > http://bernd.eckenfels.net > > > > > > ________________________________ > > > Von: Rob Tompkins <[email protected]> > > > Gesendet: Freitag, März 22, 2019 2:59 AM > > > An: Commons Developers List > > > Betreff: Re: [all] What versions of java do we support? > > > > > > Is there LTS with those other imolementations? > > > > > >> On Mar 21, 2019, at 9:43 PM, Ralph Goers <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > >> > > >> Why are you singling out Corretto? What about AdoptOpenJDK or RedHat’s > > OpenJDK support? The ASF is supposed to be vendor neutral. > > >> > > >> Ralph > > >> > > >>> On Mar 21, 2019, at 11:05 AM, Rob Tompkins <[email protected]> wrote: > > >>> > > >>> Hello all, > > >>> > > >>> I would think that with the Amazon Corretto play at long term support > > for java 8 and 11 we would want to build using the latest version of the > > Corretto 8-JDK, and we would want to ensure that we work for Java 11. > > Regarding later versions of Java I’m a tad agnostic currently as we are > > less certain with their stability. > > >>> > > >>> What are folks’ thoughts? > > >>> > > >>> -Rob > > >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > > >>> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > >>> > > >>> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > > >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > >> > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > > > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > > > -- Matt Sicker <[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
