+1 for the move to Java 17 with Maven 4 (am actually for "move to latest current Java LTS")
As anyone can see, all the major (OSS) projects did or are in the middle of pushing for Java 17. In September we have Java 21. The Java release cadence has changed, and it did not change yesterday, but a long time ago, so users should live with it. T On Wed, May 31, 2023 at 10:30 AM Guillaume Nodet <gno...@apache.org> wrote: > I'd like to resume this discussion about switching master to require JDK > 17. > > These past days, I've been working on improving the usage of toolchains > (first inside maven, but now completely in the maven-toolchains-plugin) > with [1]. If we want to go further, we could simplify the selection by > modifying the POM somehow to add a specific section, but I suspect most > people will just use the release flag on the compiler to target bytecode. > The only downside I see, beyond the additional configuration (though the > goal is that users don't really have to generate/maintain the toolchains) > is that the selection of the toolchain is done during the build, so that > JDK profile based activation can not be used. Note that the use of > environment variables is also another way to work around, for example in > github [2]. > > I think with those improvements, requiring JDK 17 for master should be > doable. Any concerns of suggestions ? > > Cheers, > Guillaume > > [1] https://github.com/apache/maven-toolchains-plugin/pull/14 > [2] > > https://github.com/B3Partners/kadaster-gds2/blob/b0cd5c392bc1f48dec11c83c828254a868264467/.github/ubuntu-toolchains.xml > > Le mar. 19 juil. 2022 à 18:25, Karl Heinz Marbaise <khmarba...@gmx.de> a > écrit : > > > Hi to all, > > > > what do you think about using JDK17 as minimum requirement for running > > the future Apache Maven 4.0.0 ? > > > > Kind regards > > Karl Heinz Marbaise > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org > > > > > > -- > ------------------------ > Guillaume Nodet >
