On 05/31/2012 02:09 PM, Christopher Svanefalk wrote:
I find this design decision very odd, exactly for the reasons you mentioned. Java 7 is, to my knowledge, far from universally supported. I would have waited for at least another release or two before phasing out Java 6.
We did think about it, but OpenJDK 6 is going to be EOL'd this year, with a complete cessation of updates.
Andrew.