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Subject: [Pljava-dev] Ongoing Development (funding): 8.4, Java 6 and beyond
Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2010 23:00:26 +0200
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On 10/05/2010 10:15 PM, Peter Brewer wrote:
> Hi Johann,
>
>> I also have questions: What PG releases do we (I?) need to support?
>> Java 6 and the Postgres releases are two different coding projects
>> (for the most part).  What combinations do we want?  Java 4 and 5 have
>> already been EoLd, PG 7, 8.0 and 8.1 are on life support.
>>
>> Do we freeze 8.3 and below at Java 5 and below or is there need/want
>> for Java 6 for the older Postgres releases?
>>
>> Here I'll point out that this is only relevant when compiling pljava,
>> of course it will run on a later JVM.
>
> Seeing as we clearly have very limited resources I'd vote for trimming 
> down support to as few combinations as possible.  Certainly we 
> shouldn't worry about EoLd stuff.  I'd vote for only supporting Java6 
> and current PG versions.

That gets my vote too. It's not like the old releases will vanish just 
because we release new stuff and releasing combination's like Java 1.4 
or even 1.5 on Postgres 8.4 or later doesn't make much sense.

- thomas

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