Re: Java versions for release 3.0

2015-08-12 Thread Peter
Hmm, I forgot about OSX, and static analysis. FreeBSD still has some socket issues BTW. Users with latent concurrency bugs are also likely to have these exposed, so should test user code thoroughly. Regards, Peter. On 11/08/2015 7:19 PM, Peter wrote: On 11/08/2015 8:33 AM, Patricia

Re: Java versions for release 3.0

2015-08-11 Thread Greg Trasuk
Seems reasonable to specify JDK8 only. So far as I know, it’s generally available, even on Linux distributions. I’d run it past the user list just to be sure, though. Cheers, Greg On Aug 10, 2015, at 6:33 PM, Patricia Shanahan p...@acm.org wrote: Which Java version(s) should be

Re: Java versions for release 3.0

2015-08-11 Thread Peter
On 11/08/2015 8:33 AM, Patricia Shanahan wrote: Which Java version(s) should be supported for release 3.0? It would simplify testing if we only support JDK 8. Because of changes such as the package renaming, I expect users to need to do their own development and testing to use the new

Java versions for release 3.0

2015-08-10 Thread Patricia Shanahan
Which Java version(s) should be supported for release 3.0? It would simplify testing if we only support JDK 8. Because of changes such as the package renaming, I expect users to need to do their own development and testing to use the new release, so I don't see much additional burden in