Re: Preparing 4.4b

[email protected] Sat, 6 Feb 2021 08:09:28 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.lisp.scheme.bigloo
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Hi Jerry,

> 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.
I have merge the pull request. I will check that everything's still fine
and I will push that new version.

Thanks again for your help,

-- 
Manuel

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