ABCL 1.8.0
Blake McBride
blake at mcbride.name
Fri Oct 30 14:40:07 UTC 2020
I'd like to add that I care far, far less about "efficiently [implement
atomic memory compare and swap operations" than I do about bug fixes and
ANSI CL conformance. And it still seems like a lot of work is remaining in
those areas.
Thanks!
Blake
On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 9:33 AM Blake McBride <blake at mcbride.name> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 6:35 AM Mark Evenson <evenson at panix.com> wrote:
>
>> ABCL 1.8.0
>>
>> Under the gathering storms of the Fall 2020, we are pleased to
>> release ABCL 1.8.0 as the Ninth major revision of the
>> implementation.
>>
>> This Ninth Edition of the implementation now supports building and
>> running on the recently released openjdk15 platform. This release
>> is intended as the last major release to support the openjdk6,
>> openjdk7, and openjdk8 platforms, for with abcl-2.0.0 we intend to
>> move the minimum platform to openjdk11 or better in order to
>> efficiently [implement atomic memory compare and swap
>> operations][github/issues/92].
>>
>
> My company uses JDK8 and every company I've consulted with still uses
> JDK8. I have no plans to switch anytime soon and nor do any of the the
> companies I've consulted with as far as I know. Rather than forcing me to
> move from JDK8, your exclusion of JDK8 will simply cause me to stop
> upgrading ABCL.
>
> According to Wikipedia, Oracle extended support of JDK8 ends in 2030.
> Support for JDK11 ends in 2026. Other companies like Azul plan to support
> JDK8 for many years to come.
>
> Is it really critical for you to drop JDK8?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Blake McBride
>
>
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