<div dir="ltr">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. <div><br></div><div>Jose</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 8:58 AM, Sam Hokin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:shokin@carnegiescience.edu" target="_blank">shokin@carnegiescience.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">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.<span class="im HOEnZb"><br>
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On 01/14/2016 12:35 AM, Spencer Bliven wrote:<br>
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Good information, Jose. If Ubuntu is switching to Java 8 in April then I think that seals the deal for using 8 for all<br>
development after the February release.<br>
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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.<br>
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