Why do you see this as a major regression? There's no problem beside that using < java7 as compile target when you use JRE8 in the project.
Tom On 27.03.14 08:38, Mickael Istria wrote: > On 03/27/2014 08:32 AM, Mickael Istria wrote: >> On 03/20/2014 03:50 PM, Konstantin Komissarchik wrote: >>> >>> I am wondering if we should do a limited SR release to pickup Java 8 >>> patches. As it stands, Eclipse users interested in Java 8 would have >>> to hunt for and install at least two patches, which doesn’t paint >>> Eclipse in a good light. >>> >> This bug https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-16902 makes that Java 8 >> support introduces something that will be felt as a major regression >> for most users. So I'm -1 for making Java 8 support part of a >> generally available SR3 until it contains this bug. > Sorry, bad link, the bug is > https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=390889 > -- > Mickael Istria > Eclipse developer at JBoss, by Red Hat <http://www.jboss.org/tools> > My blog <http://mickaelistria.wordpress.com> - My Tweets > <http://twitter.com/mickaelistria> > > > _______________________________________________ > cross-project-issues-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/cross-project-issues-dev > _______________________________________________ cross-project-issues-dev mailing list [email protected] https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/cross-project-issues-dev
