<font size=2 face="sans-serif">Hi Matej,</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">My vote is "<b>not to drop JDK
7 support</b>", 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. </font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Weld 3.x requires JDK 8, which is understandable.
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Many thanks,<br>
Emily<br>
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<br><font size=1 color=#5f5f5f face="sans-serif">From:
</font><font size=1 face="sans-serif">Matej Novotny <manovotn@redhat.com></font>
<br><font size=1 color=#5f5f5f face="sans-serif">To:
</font><font size=1 face="sans-serif">"John D. Ament"
<john.d.ament@gmail.com></font>
<br><font size=1 color=#5f5f5f face="sans-serif">Cc:
</font><font size=1 face="sans-serif">J J SNYDER <j.j.snyder@oracle.com>,
Weld <weld-dev@lists.jboss.org></font>
<br><font size=1 color=#5f5f5f face="sans-serif">Date:
</font><font size=1 face="sans-serif">26/02/2018 13:05</font>
<br><font size=1 color=#5f5f5f face="sans-serif">Subject:
</font><font size=1 face="sans-serif">Re: [weld-dev]
To drop or not to drop JDK 7 support for Weld 2.4?</font>
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</font><font size=1 face="sans-serif">weld-dev-bounces@lists.jboss.org</font>
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<br><tt><font size=2>Valid point, it would definitely make sense to raise
minor version in this case.<br>
<br>
We are unsure if we will actually remove jdk 7 sipport, but at this point
any request for backport<br>
or any attempt at support for newer java versions presents a considerable
pain because of JDK 7 support.<br>
Therefore I concluded I will ask on this mail and see if it would be ok
to eventually remove the support.<br>
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Matej<br>
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----- Original Message -----<br>
> From: "John D. Ament" <john.d.ament@gmail.com><br>
> To: "Matej Novotny" <manovotn@redhat.com><br>
> Cc: "Weld" <weld-dev@lists.jboss.org>, "J J SNYDER"
<j.j.snyder@oracle.com><br>
> Sent: Monday, February 26, 2018 1:38:39 PM<br>
> Subject: Re: [weld-dev] To drop or not to drop JDK 7 support for Weld
2.4?<br>
> <br>
> Seems weird to me that you would drop JDK support in a patch fix on
2.4.x.<br>
> Seems more appropriate to keep 2.4.x on JDK 7, 2.5.x (if you ever
create<br>
> it) on JDK 8. 3.0.x already requires JDK 8.<br>
> <br>
> On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 7:18 AM Matej Novotny <manovotn@redhat.com>
wrote:<br>
> <br>
> > Hello everyone,<br>
> ><br>
> > as you probably know, Weld 2.4 (CDI 1.2 impl) currently supports
even JDK<br>
> > 7.<br>
> > We are currently considering dropping this limitation and moving
to JDK 8<br>
> > as minimal version.<br>
> > >From what we know, some servers (such as WildFly) already
require Java 8<br>
> > to even boot up so this limitation is pretty much pointless there.<br>
> ><br>
> > Therefore, please let us know if dropping JDK 7 support presents
a problem<br>
> > for you or if you see any other reason for Weld 2.4 to stay JDK
7<br>
> > compatible.<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> > Regards<br>
> > Matej<br>
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