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

Jacek Grzebyta grzebyta.dev at gmail.com
Fri Jan 15 23:13:14 UTC 2016


I have just checked and both versions (with 1.7 and 1.8) are compiled
without error.

Regards,
Jacek

On 15 January 2016 at 20:03, Jacek Grzebyta <grzebyta.dev at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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