Rémy, On 2/25/16 8:52 AM, Rémy Maucherat wrote: > This has been hinted at in the past, but is not being discussed anymore. > > Possible options: > a) Release a new 8.x branch that would include the connectors from 9 to > support HTTP/2 [OpenSSL now allows realistic support without having to wait > for Java 9], and thus would remove a few legacy items.
+1 > b) A more radical option is to use 9 as 8.x but remove the Servlet API > changes. This would force Java 8 and many incompatible changes. -0 depending upon the Java compatibility. > c) Give up on 8.x and instead release 9 as beta, then stable, with an > explicit exception about the Servlet 4 API additions being "preview" until > further notice. That's probably the solution which involves the least > effort by far. -1 This will give us no stable up-to-date Tomcat supporting Servlet 3.1 (only). It would be better to do option (b) and require Java 8 than to drop Servlet 3.1. > d) Nothing. No 8.x release. 9 will be released sometimes in 2017 when > Servlet 4 is released. The main issue is that there's no HTTP/2 support > until then. The longer we wait, the more a major release will conflict with > the "intuitive" 9 release cycle in 2017. -0 -chris --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org
