On 18.05.2018 14:34, Stefan Sperling wrote:
> On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 08:22:46AM -0400, James McCoy wrote:
>> On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 09:46:41AM +0200, Stefan Sperling wrote:
>>> Elsewhere in this discussion thread it was suggested to raise the
>>> minimum JDK version requirement to Java 1.8.
>>> Your statement "please keep backward compatibility with older JDKs"
>>> could mean anything between "please leave everything as it is now" to
>>> "bumping the minimum requirement to Java 1.8 is absolutely fine with me".
>>>
>>> This requirement would be introduced for Subversion 1.11.
>>> Can you explain which versions of OS X / JDK you expect to support when
>>> Subversion 1.11 will be released in probably 2 to 3 years from now?
>> No one would be able to build the stable release of Subversion with JDK
>> 10 for 2 to 3 years?
>>
>> Supporting both pre-8 and post-8 JDKs wouldn't be trivial. I've been
>> working under the assumption that we can bump up to JDK 8 and backport
>> that change to 1.10.
>>
>> If that's not going to be the case, should my current work still go to
>> trunk? Then someone can find the time to adapt things to also work with
>> pre-8 JDK?
> I think you should aim to proceed with your plan as it was.
> If anyone has strong objections to this, they should be constructive and
> try to provide an alternative solution without pushing an additional
> burden on you.
Given that Java 6 and 7 are obsolete ... I think it won't hurt to make
Java 8 the oldest supported version on the 1.10.x branch.
-- Brane
Received on 2018-05-18 14:36:11 CEST