java.bytecode (or similar) module? (original) (raw)

dalibor topic dalibor.topic at oracle.com
Tue Nov 14 08:39:51 UTC 2017


On 14.11.2017 08:36, Fridrich Strba wrote:

This was actually something puzzling me in the whole versioning discussion: why on the earth increasing every 6 months a language source and target levels unless some new features require it. Especially if the version has 4 digits and one could intelligently use them. But did not want to add my grain of salt into the cacophony.

It should be simpler to increase them on a regular cadence.

That way, everyone can plan for it, and have about 6 months to adjust. In the opportunistic case, it could be a much shorter runway if a language or VM change requiring class file format changes and consecutively a bump in the language/class file versions comes in late during the development of a new release.

cheers, dalibor topic

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