Historically we've always defined a minimum version and let users decide. That seems to have worked pretty well. It provides the most flexibility and hasn't really bothered us too much. It limits our use of new language features of Java, but typically Java is ensuring b/w compat from a runtime perspective and as a result there's isn't much of a burden to say we support 6 and laters vs alternately saying we support 6&8 exclusively.
Patrick On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 7:16 AM Enrico Olivelli <eolive...@gmail.com> wrote: > Il mer 12 set 2018, 11:37 Norbert Kalmar <nkal...@cloudera.com.invalid> ha > scritto: > > > Thanks Enrico! > > > > Agree, as I mentioned, only JDK8 and 11 should be tested on 3.4 and other > > branches as well. > > > > I checked the Kerby problems, 3.4 does not have Kerby, it uses Apache > > directory server. > > Maybe we should introduce also introduce Kerby on 3.4? Or just try to fix > > the problems with directory server. > > > > Directory Server supports jdk6 and Kerby not. > If wr drop JDK6 we can switch to Kerby > > Enrico > > > > > Regards, > > Norbert > > > > On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 11:22 AM Enrico Olivelli <eolive...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > Il giorno mer 12 set 2018 alle ore 11:04 Norbert Kalmar > > > <nkal...@cloudera.com.invalid> ha scritto: > > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > Oracle8 will have it's support end in January. They changed there > > release > > > > drastically. > > > > A good article on that: > > > > https://dev.karakun.com/java/2018/06/25/java-releases.html > > > > > > > > Long story short: From January, no Oracle JDK version can be used in > > PROD > > > > environment without a license. End every release, even LTS (next one > is > > > > version 11) will only have a 6 month public update period. > > > > > > > > We should also decide on the supported versions of Java. > > > > > > > > My opinion: We should make sure ZK is compatible with Oracle 8 and > 11, > > > and > > > > also openJDK 8 and 11. > > > > > > > > But after that, every 6 month, there will be a new Oracle Java > version > > > > which we should support. > > > > > > > > What do you think? What version to support? What about 3.4 now that > 3.5 > > > is > > > > getting close to stable? (I think fix 3.4 on Oracle 11 and that's it > - > > > 3.5 > > > > stable should be out by the time 12 comes out). > > > > > > > > > > As far as I know ZK is running fine on JDK11, even 3.4. > > > We have a problem with Kerberos tests on 3.4, but we can fix them. > > > > > > > > > I can add that as far as I know there will not be any 'Oracle JDK 12" > GA, > > > but only OpenJDK will be released to GA from Oracle > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Once we have an agreement, we should create jira's to fix Java11 > > > problems. > > > > > > > > > > Ok to me > > > > > > We can consider also dropping support for JDK6 on 3.4 branch, this is > > > actually the problem > > > > > > Enrico > > > > > > > > > > Regards, > > > > Norbert > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > -- Enrico Olivelli >
