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Re: Announce: Rakudo Perl 6 compiler, Release #131 (2019.07)
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Darren Duncan
Jul 18, 2019, 12:15:03 AM7/18/19
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On 2019-07-17 2:18 p.m., Aleks-Daniel Jakimenko-Aleksejev wrote:
> On behalf of the Rakudo development team, I’m very happy to announce the
> July 2019 release of Rakudo Perl 6 #131. Rakudo is an implementation of
> Perl 6 on the Moar Virtual Machine[^1].
>
> New in 2019.07:
> + SPECIAL NOTES:
> + Upcoming releases after this one will have a different changelog
> format
> + Java 9 is now required for JVM backend [ea94966d][8a37b931][b1fac3d6]
I question this decision. If we're not going to support Java 8, then why not
make Java 11 the minimum dependency instead of Java 9? Java 8 and 11 have long
term support while Java 9 and 10 are already no longer supported. Who now can
use Java 9 but not use Java 11? -- Darren Duncan
> On behalf of the Rakudo development team, I’m very happy to announce the
> July 2019 release of Rakudo Perl 6 #131. Rakudo is an implementation of
> Perl 6 on the Moar Virtual Machine[^1].
>
> New in 2019.07:
> + SPECIAL NOTES:
> + Upcoming releases after this one will have a different changelog
> format
> + Java 9 is now required for JVM backend [ea94966d][8a37b931][b1fac3d6]
I question this decision. If we're not going to support Java 8, then why not
make Java 11 the minimum dependency instead of Java 9? Java 8 and 11 have long
term support while Java 9 and 10 are already no longer supported. Who now can
use Java 9 but not use Java 11? -- Darren Duncan
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