Java 8: [Samtools-devel] HTSJDK Moving to Java 8

[HenrikBengtsson]

On Nov 24, 2015 10:28, "Tim Fennell" tfenne@tfenne.com wrote:
In accordance with the policy and timelines that have been displayed on the project page[1] for the last few months, , HTSJDK will be discontinuing support for versions of Java prior to Java 8. The change will be made in GitHub today, and will effect binary releases of HTSJDK starting with the next release.

This change is being made for two major reasons:

1. Oracle has discontinued providing public updates for Java 7 as of April 2015
2. The developers of the project (of which I am one) feel that the language features and additional APIs available in Java 8 provide sufficient value to discontinue supporting earlier versions

While the announcement only effects HTSJDK, it is likely that Picard and other downstream libraries effected by the change will make a similar move in the coming weeks or months.

-t

[1] https://github.com/samtools/htsjdk