<div dir="ltr">Oracle will support Java 7 at least until March 2015 [1]. And it's very likely that some people will keep using 7 after that, just like they are using 6 now. So unless we want to support Java 6 until 2016, I don't think we can skip 7.<br>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br>[1] <a href="http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/eol-135779.html">http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/eol-135779.html</a><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 4:51 PM, Bela Ban <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bban@redhat.com" target="_blank">bban@redhat.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">If the majority of users go directly to 8 from 6, then yes why not. But<br>
if that's not the case, then we can't do it, either...<br>
<div class="im"><br>
On 5/23/13 3:07 PM, Galder Zamarreņo wrote:<br>
> What about skipping 7 and waiting for 8?<br>
><br>
> On May 23, 2013, at 12:38 PM, Manik Surtani <<a href="mailto:msurtani@redhat.com">msurtani@redhat.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
>> Yup, it needs to happen sometime. But the question is, when?<br>
>><br>
>> Is there anyone out there who desperately needs Infinispan to work on Java 6?<br>
>><br>
>> Cheers<br>
>> Manik<br>
<br>
--<br>
</div><div class="im">Bela Ban, JGroups lead (<a href="http://www.jgroups.org" target="_blank">http://www.jgroups.org</a>)<br>
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