[sakai2-tcc] Java 6 vs Java 7 - was Re: [cle-release-team] Emerging consensus to focus on 2.10

[Mark J. Norton]

At the very least, we should be testing against Java 7 - superficially, 
if not more.

- Mark

On 9/9/2013 10:37 AM, Aaron Zeckoski wrote:
> It would probably take the industry generally moving to java 7 which
> they are not really doing yet. When we see people dropping java 6
> support we can review this but for now we should support both 6 and 7.
> We could probably change the recommendation to 7 if a majority prefers
> that and it matches what we are using on the QA servers.
> -AZ
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> On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 10:27 AM, Neal Caidin <neal.caidin at apereo.org> wrote:
>> Hi,
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>> Our release notes show Java 6 as being preferred -
>> https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=82249316
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>> What will it take to make Java 7 preferred? Or will this already be the case
>> for Sakai 4 ;-) ?
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>> Neal
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>> Neal Caidin
>> Sakai CLE Community Coordinator
>> neal.caidin at apereo.org
>> Skype: nealkdin
>> Twitter: ncaidin
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>> On Sep 9, 2013, at 10:11 AM, Aaron Zeckoski <azeckoski at unicon.net> wrote:
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>> On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 10:03 AM, Mark J. Norton
>> <markjnorton at earthlink.net> wrote:
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>> Still, I'd like to see some architectural review done.  Perhaps we should
>> build support for TinCan into the kernel.  We might consider support for a
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>> Good idea, already done in trunk.
>> https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/KNL-1042
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>> button support, for example).  We should move up to Java 7, too.
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>> Same as above... but in 2.9.
>> https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-20908
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>> -AZ
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>> Aaron Zeckoski - Software Architect - http://tinyurl.com/azprofile
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