that may very well be, BUT, many commercial shops are migrating apps from 8 and 11 where able because the blood money for EoL java is starting to be a tax they don't want to pay if possible. just like when we had to bite the bullet with 1.1, 1.5 and 1.8, i recommend at the very least, moving up to 11, but seriously urge for 17. TBH if people need 8 support, they can stick with 5.x if need be until they need to move up.
something to consider, how many projects that are going to target the bleeding edge version of POI really need java 8 support? my feeling is that number is so small to be trivial. and if a project has the available resources to follow the newest version of POI, they probably have the resources to upgrade their app to a newer version of java. Stanton Fisque principal technologist latticeware.com portland, oregon > On Feb 3, 2024, at 13:18 PM, PJ Fanning <fannin...@yahoo.com.INVALID> wrote: > > Current POI version is 5.2.5. So I presume the idea is to release a POI 6 > with Java 11 only support. I'm -1 on this. I don't see any great advantage in > only supporting Java 11. Java 8 is still widely supported by vendors. > > https://endoflife.date/oracle-jdk says 6 more years of Java 8. > > > > > > > On Saturday 3 February 2024 at 22:04:26 GMT+1, Axel Howind <a...@dua3.com> > wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > for whatever reason I cannot reach both the Nabble and MarkMail archives to > check if this has been discussed before, but I think it would be a good idea > to bump the minimum Java version for POI 5 to 11. I’d also be ok (or rather > like) 17. What do you think? > > Cheers, > Axel > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@poi.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@poi.apache.org > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@poi.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@poi.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@poi.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@poi.apache.org
