Re: Announce: Rakudo Perl 6 compiler, Release #131 (2019.07)

Patches welcome!

Fact is: the JVM support group is very small.  If you feel that this is =
important, the best way to get what you want to see in Java support, is =
to work on it.

> On 18 Jul 2019, at 05:53, Darren Duncan <[email protected]> =
wrote:
>=20
> On 2019-07-17 2:18 p.m., Aleks-Daniel Jakimenko-Aleksejev wrote:
>> On behalf of the Rakudo development team, I=E2=80=99m very happy to =
announce the
>> July 2019 release of Rakudo Perl 6 #131. Rakudo is an implementation =
of
>> Perl 6 on the Moar Virtual Machine[^1].
>> New in 2019.07:
>>   + SPECIAL NOTES:
>>     + Upcoming releases after this one will have a different =
changelog
>> format
>>     + Java 9 is now required for JVM backend =
[ea94966d][8a37b931][b1fac3d6]
>=20
> I question this decision.  If we're not going to support Java 8, then =
why not make Java 11 the minimum dependency instead of Java 9?  Java 8 =
and 11 have long term support while Java 9 and 10 are already no longer =
supported.  Who now can use Java 9 but not use Java 11? -- Darren Duncan