[Building Sakai] Requiring JDK 7 for building/running Sakai 11?

[Aaron Zeckoski]

Current OSX still bundles JDK 6 by default (release from 2013-10-15).
Lots of servers out there are still running Java 6

We could require everyone who uses a Mac to figure out how to install
a newer version in order to use Sakai but I think that is likely to
just make people not bother and use Moodle instead. Current PHP is
5.5.8 (9 Jan 2014) but newest moodle 2.6.1 (13th Jan 2014) only
requires PHP 5.3.3 (22 July 2010).

Bear in mind this bug with JDK 7:
https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/KNL-1083

I don't see the benefit and I do see lots of negatives.
-AZ

On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 11:43 AM, Matthew Buckett
<matthew.buckett at it.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> I know at the moment JDK 6 is the minimum required for Sakai, does bumping
> it up to JDK 7 (which was released July 2011) make sense for trunk (Sakai
> 11)?
>
> JDK 6 from Oracle stopped getting public updated in Feb 2013.
> The less JDKs we support the less possibility there is for cross JDK issues.
> JDK 7 has some nice new language features:
> http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/jdk7-relnotes-418459.html
>
> JDK 7 is available in old distributions such as:
> - Ubuntu 12.04 (released in 2012).
> - Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 (release 2011).
>
> Are there places that can't run on JDK 7?
>
> --
>   Matthew Buckett, VLE Developer, IT Services, University of Oxford
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