[Biojava-dev] [Biojava-l] Increasing Java version requirement for BioJava

[Jacek Grzebyta]

Hi All,

Before official switch jdk version to 1.8 does anyone have 1.7 or 1.8-based
unofficial branch? I would need some 1.7+ feature.

Regards,
Jacek



On 14 January 2016 at 17:19, Jose Duarte <jose.duarte at rcsb.org> wrote:

> Just to be clear. I was speaking about Ubuntu LTS (Long Time Support)
> releases (released only every 2 years). The normal Ubuntu releases
> (appearing April and October every year) have the openjdk Java 8 package in
> the standard repository since release 15.04.
>
> Jose
>
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 8:58 AM, Sam Hokin <shokin at carnegiescience.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> Yeah, I'll retract my "Java 7" vote since that was based on Ubuntu
>> providing Java 7 at the current time. I stay up to date with Ubuntu
>> versions, so I'll be on Java 8 when BioJava goes to 8. And Fedora (my main
>> bioinformatics platform) is already providing 8 from the distro.
>>
>> On 01/14/2016 12:35 AM, Spencer Bliven wrote:
>>
>>> Good information, Jose. If Ubuntu is switching to Java 8 in April then I
>>> think that seals the deal for using 8 for all
>>> development after the February release.
>>>
>>> I still don't see the point of dictating Java 7 for the 4.2 release, but
>>> it does sound like it will impact relatively few users.
>>>
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