basically +1 Most of our customers are using 1.7 since this year. I just wonder whats the benefit for us? I think there are no language features which would improve our code base.
2016-03-25 3:25 GMT+01:00 John D. Ament <johndam...@apache.org>: > Hey guys, > > I've brought this topic up before without much positive response. I figure > I'll bring it up again. > > I'd like to propose that DeltaSpike 1.6 be the last minor release to > support Java 1.6. I suspect that most users are already using Java 7 or > higher. None of our builds in CI (builds.apache.org) currently run on 1.6 > either, so while we can say from a syntax standpoint we're 1.6 compliant > I'm not sure we can say from a JDK Library standpoint we don't rely on > anything from Java 7. > > We're one of the few projects that probably still supports Java 6 as a > mainline development, so I was hoping we could just cut 1.6 as 1.6 > compliant, if we need to cut patch releases of 1.6 to apply patches, but > with DeltaSpike 1.7 and on, focus on Java 7 and up. > > John >
