Re: Question - JDK Minimum of future Apache Maven 4.0.0

[Ralph Goers]

> On Jul 25, 2022, at 12:34 PM, Michael Osipov <micha...@apache.org> wrote:
> 
> Am 2022-07-25 um 21:31 schrieb Ralph Goers:
>> So my vote would be +1 for Maven 4 requiring Java 17 under the condition 
>> that Maven 3 continues to get new releases.
> 
> This will not happen with me, only patches if necessary 3.9.1, etc. As soon 
> as 4 is stable, 3 will be phased out. We don't have the resources for that. 
> So for 3.8.x. As soon as 3.9.0 gets out, or 3.9.1, 3.8.x will not receive any 
> fixes.
> 

This is exactly what I expected as Maven has never supported older major 
releases once the new one is stable.

Given that, I believe it would be a mistake to require Java 17,

Ralph


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