[weld-dev] To drop or not to drop JDK 7 support for Weld 2.4?

[Emily Jiang]

Hi Matej,

My vote is "not to drop JDK 7 support", as Java EE7 requires the minimum 
Java version being 7. If you remove the JDK7 support, this will have big 
impact to the customer who are currently use JDK7. 

Weld 3.x requires JDK 8, which is understandable. 

Many thanks,
Emily
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From:   Matej Novotny <manovotn at redhat.com>
To:     "John D. Ament" <john.d.ament at gmail.com>
Cc:     J J SNYDER <j.j.snyder at oracle.com>, Weld 
<weld-dev at lists.jboss.org>
Date:   26/02/2018 13:05
Subject:        Re: [weld-dev] To drop or not to drop JDK 7 support for 
Weld 2.4?
Sent by:        weld-dev-bounces at lists.jboss.org



Valid point, it would definitely make sense to raise minor version in this 
case.

We are unsure if we will actually remove jdk 7 sipport, but at this point 
any request for backport
or any attempt at support for newer java versions presents a considerable 
pain because of JDK 7 support.
Therefore I concluded I will ask on this mail and see if it would be ok to 
eventually remove the support.

Matej

----- Original Message -----
> From: "John D. Ament" <john.d.ament at gmail.com>
> To: "Matej Novotny" <manovotn at redhat.com>
> Cc: "Weld" <weld-dev at lists.jboss.org>, "J J SNYDER" 
<j.j.snyder at oracle.com>
> Sent: Monday, February 26, 2018 1:38:39 PM
> Subject: Re: [weld-dev] To drop or not to drop JDK 7 support for Weld 
2.4?
> 
> Seems weird to me that you would drop JDK support in a patch fix on 
2.4.x.
> Seems more appropriate to keep 2.4.x on JDK 7, 2.5.x (if you ever create
> it) on JDK 8.  3.0.x already requires JDK 8.
> 
> On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 7:18 AM Matej Novotny <manovotn at redhat.com> 
wrote:
> 
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > as you probably know, Weld 2.4 (CDI 1.2 impl) currently supports even 
JDK
> > 7.
> > We are currently considering dropping this limitation and moving to 
JDK 8
> > as minimal version.
> > >From what we know, some servers (such as WildFly) already require 
Java 8
> > to even boot up so this limitation is pretty much pointless there.
> >
> > Therefore, please let us know if dropping JDK 7 support presents a 
problem
> > for you or if you see any other reason for Weld 2.4 to stay JDK 7
> > compatible.
> >
> >
> > Regards
> > Matej
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