Re: SCRAM inplementation

Dave Cramer

On 2 April 2017 at 14:51, Steven Schlansker <stevenschlansker(at)gmail(dot)com>
wrote:

>
> > On Apr 2, 2017, at 9:05 AM, Álvaro Hernández Tortosa <aht(at)8kdata(dot)com>
> wrote:
> > On 31/03/17 14:31, Dave Cramer wrote:
> >>
> >> Also this means we are going to be adding some dependencies. Alvaro can
> you talk about which dependencies you are contemplating ?
> >
> >
> > So... I don't want to spur a heavy debate on Java6 vs Java8, and maybe
> that should go on a separate thread, but... thinking of it why not? There
> are indeed many versions (up to and including 42) of pgjdbc which work for
> Java6, are fully featured, and mature. While they are developed for a
> platform EOLed for several years. Does it make real sense to continue
> developing new versions with this platform in mind? Are there very strong
> reasons to remain Java6-compatible for future versions?
>
> One random $USER's opinion, Java 7 is already EOL. Why do we even talk
> about 6 anymore?
>
> If better or less code can be written, or reliability improved, by moving
> to Java 8 - do it! We should live in the future, not the past :)
>
>

Well we have to keep in mind that SCRAM is essentially an enterprise
feature, and like it or not there are lots of enterprises running on java 6