+1 to stopping Java 6 support. Last weeks we've been having some issues with Java 6 compatibility I'm afraid that in the near future we'll be facing more and more issues so it would be nice not supporting version 6 anymore.
Kind regards, Alberto 2015-06-21 19:15 GMT+02:00 Henry Saputra <henry.sapu...@gmail.com>: > Let's cut one release with Java6 support and next ones with java7 or above. > > - Henry > > On Friday, June 19, 2015, Kasper Sørensen <i.am.kasper.soren...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > I am right now doing a new release (candidate) and have just run into > some > > SSL issues with my old Java 6 that I wanted to do the release with. The > > particular issue is solved now, but it reminded me of the last few months > > where we have seen tough problems with getting the build to run on Java 6 > > while many of the libraries/databases [1] we use are not even Java 6 > > compatible any more. > > > > So I guess my question is if we could consider stopping Java 6 support? I > > know that we at Human Inference / Neopost have stopped supporting Java 6. > > We could also just bump the version number and still have a old Java 6 > > compatible version and branch if needed. > > > > Best regards, > > Kasper > > > > > > [1] ElasticSearch, HBase, Cassandra-unit and also the Solr module (in > > non-merged branch) > > >
