Re: Preparing 4.4b

On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 10:16 AM <[email protected]> wrote:
> The version 4.4b is almost complete and ready. I would be glab if you
> could give a try before it is official released. Thanks in advance for
> your help,

The configure check for JDKs > 9 does not work correctly.  With
OpenJDK 11, for example:

$ javac -version 2>&1 | head -n 1
javac 11.0.10

All of the commands that grep java_version fail, and java_version is
set to 1.3.  It should be done as in this pull request:

https://github.com/manuel-serrano/bigloo/pull/45

Speaking of JDK versions, from the perspective of Fedora, nothing
older than JDK 8 is interesting.  Oracle's JDK 7 is on extended
support until July 2022, so it may make sense to continue supporting
it for now, but even JDK 6 reached end of extended support more than 2
years ago.  Some aspects of the makefiles and code could be simplified
if you removed support for ancient versions of Java; e.g.,
api/ssl/src/Makefile wouldn't have to check JAVA_VERSION at all.

Regards,
-- 
Jerry James
http://www.jamezone.org/