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@mcbride.name wrote:
On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 6:35 AM Mark Evenson evenson@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