On 07/05/2015 12:37 PM, Christian Geisert wrote:
Well call it "Standards Office" or whatever, the guys who decide which
platforms are allowed to use in the company.
Java 7 will be coming off the list in most companies if it has not
already been done.
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 ;-)
http://tecadmin.net/install-oracle-java-8-jdk-8-ubuntu-via-ppa/
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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