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Re: Surprise!

From	Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject	Re: Surprise!
Date	2020-04-27 09:46 -0400
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On 4/27/2020 9:36 AM, Eric Douglas wrote:
> On Monday, April 27, 2020 at 8:13:04 AM UTC-4, Martin Gregorie wrote:
>>> Calling 1.8 "recent" is quite a stretch ;)
>>>
>> True enough, but AFAIK its still supported, alongside 11 and 14, for
>> Fedora Linux. I recently saw stats (in The Register) showing the majority
>> of developers are still using 8, and #242 is the most recent Java 8
>> release.
>>
>> If its just as easy to move from Java 8 to 11 or 14 as it still is to
>> compile a K&R source file under that latest ANSI C compiler, then I'm
>> happy to move on, but is it that easy? Somehow I've gotten the impression
>> that it may not be.
> 
> I'm using 8 right now.  It is easy enough to move from 8 to 11 (when is the next LTS?) but getting government approval?

It has changed a bit, but right now my understanding is that
17 (September 2021) will be next LTS.

Arne

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Re: Surprise! Jeff Higgins <invalid@invalid.org> - 2020-04-26 05:06 -0400
  Re: Surprise! Martin Gregorie <martin@mydomain.invalid> - 2020-04-26 13:00 +0000
    Re: Surprise! Joerg Meier <joergmmeier@arcor.de> - 2020-04-27 09:13 +0200
      Re: Surprise! Martin Gregorie <martin@mydomain.invalid> - 2020-04-27 12:12 +0000
        Re: Surprise! Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2020-04-27 08:34 -0400
          Re: Surprise! Martin Gregorie <martin@mydomain.invalid> - 2020-04-27 13:52 +0000
            Re: Surprise! Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2020-04-27 10:04 -0400
          Re: Surprise! Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2020-04-27 10:09 -0400
        Re: Surprise! Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2020-04-27 06:36 -0700
          Re: Surprise! Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2020-04-27 09:46 -0400

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