Re: [Rails-devel] Moving to Java 1.6

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

On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 2:45 PM, Stefan Frey <ste...@we...> wrote:

> I should have been more precise, my intention is to increase the minimum
> version of Java to 1.6 (aka Java 6). This includes anyone who uses 1.7/
> Java 7. The only group excluded are those who are still on 1.5.
> If I remember correctly that there those with a Mac system running on a
> Motorola cpu. But most likely there is no one left.
>
>
That was the meaning I took from your proposal.

My point was that, given that Java 7 is 2 years old, there aren't a lot of
reasons that I see for why Java 7 couldn't be the minimum version or why we
had to support Java 6 a while longer.

I'm comfortable with the minimum version being 6 or 7 at this point. The
risks that there are people unable to upgrade to Java 7 (if they haven't
already) are likely to be fairly low.

---Brett.



>
> brett lentz <bre...@gm...> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>  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.
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