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
