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.

[1] http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/eol-135779.html

On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 4:51 PM, Bela Ban <bban@redhat.com> wrote:

If the majority of users go directly to 8 from 6, then yes why not. But
if that's not the case, then we can't do it, either...

On 5/23/13 3:07 PM, Galder Zamarreño wrote:
> What about skipping 7 and waiting for 8?
>
> On May 23, 2013, at 12:38 PM, Manik Surtani <msurtani@redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> Yup, it needs to happen sometime. But the question is, when?
>>
>> Is there anyone out there who desperately needs Infinispan to work on Java 6?
>>
>> Cheers
>> Manik

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