Minimum version of JDK for Subversion 1.10 (was Re: JDK 10 removal of javah)

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?

Cheers,

-- 
James
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