Re: ABCL 1.8.0

I have provided support in the past and would do so again if possible.

On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 9:44 AM Stas Boukarev <[email protected]> wrote:

> Are these companies willing to sponsor JDK 8 support? If they derive
> value from ABCL it's only fair.
>
> On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 5:34 PM Blake McBride <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 6:35 AM Mark Evenson <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >>     ABCL 1.8.0
> >>
> >>     Under the gathering storms of the Fall 2020, we are pleased to
> >>     release ABCL 1.8.0 as the Ninth major revision of the
> >>     implementation.
> >>
> >>     This Ninth Edition of the implementation now supports building and
> >>     running on the recently released openjdk15 platform.  This release
> >>     is intended as the last major release to support the openjdk6,
> >>     openjdk7, and openjdk8 platforms, for with abcl-2.0.0 we intend to
> >>     move the minimum platform to openjdk11 or better in order to
> >>     efficiently [implement atomic memory compare and swap
> >>     operations][github/issues/92].
> >
> >
> > My company uses JDK8 and every company I've consulted with still uses
> JDK8.  I have no plans to switch anytime soon and nor do any of the the
> companies I've consulted with as far as I know.   Rather than forcing me to
> move from JDK8, your exclusion of JDK8 will simply cause me to stop
> upgrading ABCL.
> >
> > According to Wikipedia, Oracle extended support of JDK8 ends in 2030.
> Support for JDK11 ends in 2026.  Other companies like Azul plan to support
> JDK8 for many years to come.
> >
> > Is it really critical for you to drop JDK8?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Blake McBride
> >
>