On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 6:29 PM, Jochen Kemnade <[email protected]> wrote:

There have been discussions whether we want to keep compatibility with
> Java 5 for the upcoming 5.4 release.
> Java 5 is EOSL since October 2009.
> While requiring Java 6 would not bring us much benefits, there might be
> some libraries that we cannot use because they do not support Java 5.
> Also, we'd spare ourselves some efforts not having to support Java 5
> anymore.
> The vote will run for 3 days and, if it succeeds, I will increase the
> minimum required Java version to 1.6.
>
> Jochen Kemnade: +1 (non-binding)
>
>
Massimo Lusetti: +0 (binding)

I'm taking the arguments of new libraries versions and EOSL of Java5 but I
actually don't see any benefit from this so "I'm okay with this but I don't
feel strongly"

I would like to see an upgrade to Java8, maybe this will be for 5.5

Cheers

-- 
Massimo Lusetti

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