Well call it "Standards Office" or whatever, the guys who decide which
platforms are allowed to use in the company.
Java 8 is available since just about a year..
Just the mentioned Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (= Longtime Support, which means
support for 5 years) has no Java 8 in the official repositories.
Is there a Java 8 for AS/400 ;-)
Anyway, my point is that there should be good reasons to switch to Java
8 only.
Christian
Am 07.05.2015 17:58, schrieb Ron Wheeler:
> On 07/05/2015 11:32 AM, Christian Geisert wrote:
>> Yes, we must support Java 8, but we absolutely have the choice to still
>> support Java 7 (i.e. no use of Java 8 only features yet)
>>
>> IMHO there should be good reasons to use these Java 8 features (not just
>> because it's cool..)
>>
>> It's not a big deal to update a developer machine to Java 8 (well, my
>> laptop still runs Kubuntu 12.04 ..) but it's another thing in (big)
>> companies (old operating systems, get approvals from security office
>> etc...)
>
> Security officer is going to be insisting on an upgrade to Java 8
> since Java 7 is no longer going to get security fixes.
>
> Have we heard of any OS that supports Java 7 but not Java 8?
>
> Ron
>
>>
>> Christian
>>
>> Am 07.05.2015 15:40, schrieb Adam Heath:
>>> Not a reply to Jacques, but if an absolutely java-8-only feature is
>>> used, be sure to update the regex in ${ofbiz.home}/macros.xml, then
>>> the source/target values in common.xml in the same folder.
>>>
>>> ps: I'm fine with moving towards 1.8. It's not a choice that we can
>>> make, actually.
>>>
>>> On 05/07/2015 01:46 AM, Jacques Le Roux wrote:
>>>> Yes (lazy) consensus over vote ;)
>>>>
>>>> Jacques
>>>>
>>>
>>
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