The general plan had been to wait until Java 8 was final before switching from JDK 7 to JDK 8. We planned switch internal Oracle build systems to JDK 8 after the April 15th CPU release. However, since there seems to already be a mix of JDK 7 and JDK 8 in use it is probably appropriate to switch now.
Mike On Apr 3 2014, at 01:43 , Alan Bateman <alan.bate...@oracle.com> wrote: > > We had problems in jdk9/dev in the last day or so where there were changes > pushed to the corba repo that use APIs that are new in JDK 8. This caused > problems when building jdk9/dev with a 7uX build as the boot JDK and made it > obvious that there are a mix of boot JDKs in use (some people use 7uX, some > use 8). > > I'm wondering when is the time to move to requiring the boot JDK be a JDK 8 > build? This came up in December too when a change to langtools had to be > reserved in order to keep jdk9/dev building with a 7uX build as the boot JDK. > > Are there any reasons not to switch now? > > -Alan.
