Re: RFC: Make new versions of pgjdbc Java8+ - Mailing list pgsql-jdbc

On 03/04/17 18:32, Jorge Solórzano wrote:

The End of Public Updates of Oracle JDK 6 was on Feb 2013, but there is an "premier" and "extended" support (paid of course) where the "extended" ends on Dec 2018.

• If you ask me, we should stick to the "premier" support dates for the PgJDBC, so basically Java 6 should have died in Dec 2015.
  
• Following the "premier" support, Java 7 should be dropped until Jul 2019.

    So.... we are going to be favoring customers paying extra premium fees to Oracle.... don't count with me! ^_^

    I don't agree. For me EOL is EOL, not premier.

• The Oracle JDK it's not the only JDK so the End of Public Updates from Oracle should not dictate the kill of a Java version, there is OpenJDK.
• The OpenJDK/IcedTea team, drop support for Java 6 just recently.

   

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Fair enough. But as a simple example, neither openjdk6 nor openjdk7 are available in my Ubuntu distro (16.04, not even bleeding edge).

• The Azul Zulu team still supports Java 6 (at least I haven't hear the drop of support).

So +1 for drop support for Java 6, and -1 for drop support for Java 7.

    Still unconvinced of a strong reason to keep support for Java 7. My +1 for Java8+.

    Cheers,

    Álvaro

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Álvaro Hernández Tortosa


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