<div dir="ltr">I have provided support in the past and would do so again if possible.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 9:44 AM Stas Boukarev <<a href="mailto:stassats@gmail.com">stassats@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Are these companies willing to sponsor JDK 8 support? If they derive<br>
value from ABCL it's only fair.<br>
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On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 5:34 PM Blake McBride <<a href="mailto:blake@mcbride.name" target="_blank">blake@mcbride.name</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 6:35 AM Mark Evenson <<a href="mailto:evenson@panix.com" target="_blank">evenson@panix.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> ABCL 1.8.0<br>
>><br>
>> Under the gathering storms of the Fall 2020, we are pleased to<br>
>> release ABCL 1.8.0 as the Ninth major revision of the<br>
>> implementation.<br>
>><br>
>> This Ninth Edition of the implementation now supports building and<br>
>> running on the recently released openjdk15 platform. This release<br>
>> is intended as the last major release to support the openjdk6,<br>
>> openjdk7, and openjdk8 platforms, for with abcl-2.0.0 we intend to<br>
>> move the minimum platform to openjdk11 or better in order to<br>
>> efficiently [implement atomic memory compare and swap<br>
>> operations][github/issues/92].<br>
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> 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.<br>
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> 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.<br>
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> Is it really critical for you to drop JDK8?<br>
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> Thanks.<br>
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> Blake McBride<br>
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