IMHO to move to Java 8 we need to drop support for EE6/EE7. So to me that says the next version is 2.0 not 1.9.x.
There are some weld 1.1 versions that support this, but no testable AS7 instance that we can check against. John On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 9:35 AM Cody Lerum <cody.le...@gmail.com> wrote: > +1 there is no reason for someone running Java 7 to expect new features > from Deltaspike. > > On Feb 28, 2018 9:48 PM, "Mark Struberg" <strub...@yahoo.de.invalid> > wrote: > > > Hi folks! > > > > Our build, etc in theory still runs with Java6. > > As typical with ASF projects we make battle prooven projects for > > production. > > That means we take backward compatibility really serious. > > > > But I think it's finally time to up the game to Java8. > > To indicate this I suggest to move from currently 1.8.x to 1.9.x. > > > > Note that all the rest will still be backward compatible with older > > versions! > > We also might still ship 1.8.2, 1.8.3, etc as Java7 compatible version if > > there is any necessity. > > > > Any objections? > > > > LieGrue, > > strub >
