Proposed implementation of JEP 182 in JDK 11: drop javac support for -source/-target/--release 6 (original) (raw)

Remi Forax forax at univ-mlv.fr
Mon May 14 14:43:05 UTC 2018

Hi Dalibor,

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De: "dalibor topic" <dalibor.topic at oracle.com> À: "jdk-dev" <jdk-dev at openjdk.java.net> Envoyé: Lundi 14 Mai 2018 16:35:49 Objet: Re: Proposed implementation of JEP 182 in JDK 11: drop javac support for -source/-target/--release 6

On 10.05.2018 19:56, joe darcy wrote:

Given the age of JDK 6, I think it is reasonable in 2018 for JDK 11 to drop support for -source/-target/--release 1.6/6, leaving support for 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11. It would be nice to drop support for 9, as well, since it's done, and its users should be moving on to 10.

Why only 9, if i follow you, we should also drop the support for 10 because when 11 will be out, 10 support will not be supported too.

I think it's better to drop the support of 9 and 10 when the support for 8 (the LTS) will be dropped.

cheers, dalibor topic

Rémi

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