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Re: Surprise!

From	Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject	Re: Surprise!
Date	2019-09-20 19:01 -0400
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On 9/20/2019 11:03 AM, Eric Douglas wrote:
> On Thursday, September 19, 2019 at 7:18:25 PM UTC-4, Martin Gregorie wrote:
>>
>> JDK 11 and 12 are available as, respectively stable and rolling versions,
>> so it looks as though Fedora Linux has skipped, or already droped, 9.
>>
> 
> Nobody likes 9, 9 is dead.  I have an API that was made for 8, tried
> compiling in 9, got nothing but headaches.  A couple months ago when
> I heard about 8 officially dying (as no more new 'free for commercial
> use' versions from the Oracle site) I decided we ought to test 11
> (the latest LTS version) and it went pretty smooth. >
> The new Java map, every 3rd version is supposed to be LTS?  Not sure
> how long we're going to want 11 then, when exactly we'll want or need
> a newer one.
Only LTS versions are relevant for most users.

I believe that the original statement was that every third
release would be LTS aka every 18 months.

But current statement seems to be that LTS is every 3 years
aka every 6th release.

If I understood that correct then 11 LTS will be followed by 17 LTS
in September 2021.

An honestly - looking at new features list in recent new versions
of Java, the waiting 6 releases for a LTS somewhat make sense as
3 releases would simply have too little new stuff.

Arne

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Re: Surprise! Martin Gregorie <martin@mydomain.invalid> - 2019-09-19 20:47 +0000
  Re: Surprise! Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2019-09-19 14:01 -0700
    Re: Surprise! Martin Gregorie <martin@mydomain.invalid> - 2019-09-19 23:18 +0000
      Re: Surprise! Knute Johnson <groups@585ranch.com> - 2019-09-19 20:03 -0500
      Re: Surprise! Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2019-09-20 08:03 -0700
        Re: Surprise! Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2019-09-20 19:01 -0400

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