On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 02:36:06PM +0200, Branko Čibej wrote:
> 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
Yes, I agree.
Sorry for confusing the matter by mentioning 1.11.
I was just responding to the vaguely worded request from Syntevo and
I hadn't read the context of this entire discussion thread yet.
We would normally not change minimum dependency versions within a
stable release branch but this looks like a case where we can make
a reasonable exception to this rule.
Received on 2018-05-18 14:40:35 CEST