Re: [Rails-devel] Moving to Java 1.6

[brett l. <bre...@gm...>]

On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 6:51 AM, Stefan Frey <ste...@we...> wrote:

> All users of rails,
> For the upcoming version 2.0 of Rails my intention is to move to Java
> version 1.6. Are there still serious obstacles to upgrading? Especially
> for those users on a Mac OS?
> There are several libraries used by Rails, which have moved to 1.6
> support only.
> Thanks for your feedback,
> Stefan
>


+1 from me.

I would also be comfortable jumping the supported platform to Java 7 (1.7).
It's been out for a couple years now. Wikipedia says Java 7 was released in
July 2011 and Java 6 was released in December 2006. So, I don't think
anyone can make a valid case that Java 7 is "too new" or lacks widespread
adoption or support.

---Brett.