[Biojava-dev] Java version for Biojava 4

[Michael Heuer]

I'm fine bumping to Java 7 as the minimum, although if there isn't a
strong reason to move from Java 6 we might as well stay there.

I have found a few problems with Java 8, e.g.

https://github.com/bigdatagenomics/adam/issues/198
https://github.com/nmdp-bioinformatics/ngs/issues/34

so I wouldn't want to move to Java 8 as a minimum at this time.

   michael


On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 2:57 AM, Jose Manuel Duarte <jose.duarte at psi.ch> wrote:
>
>> So has Java 6 been decided as the version for the 4.0 release? Just asking
>> as Douglas' suggestion is solid (I actually wasn't aware of that
>> functionality).
>>
>
> [moved to a new thread]
>
> I would definitely vote for next release to be at least Java 7, I would even
> try Java 8 to be more future proof. At the moment Java 7 is already 3 years
> old and very established. By the time we release Biojava 4, Java 6 will
> surely be quite ancient (around 8 years old).
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Jose
>
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