Hi all, just defined a new Jenkins Job to build our trunk with JDK 8, here: https://builds.apache.org/job/Pivot-trunk%20on%20Java%208/
but currently it's disabled because there isn't available a JDK 8 in Jenkins servers ... I hope to enable it soon. In the meantime I'll ask to Infra to install it. Bye, Sandro 2014-03-20 9:30 GMT+01:00 Sandro Martini <sandro.mart...@gmail.com>: > Hi Roger, > I downloaded it yesterday (it's available now), but didn't tried it. > > I can look at Apache Jenkins and do a new build of Pivot trunk with a > JDK 8 (if available, otherwise ask to Infra to add it) ... > > Lambda expressions could be very useful to simplify some parts of > code, Nashorn (the new and complete JavaScript Scripting engine) could > be great even for us (js scripts now can run even directly from the > command line with a dedicated tool, jjs, other that the usual > jrunscript), etc ... > And JavaFX continues to evolve ... > > Anyway, if someone has some feedback on it, tell us. > > Bye, > Sandro > > 2014-03-19 23:58 GMT+01:00 Roger Whitcomb <roger.whitc...@actian.com>: >> Just got news that JDK 8 is production-ready, and GA will be announced next >> Tuesday, March 25: http://mreinhold.org/blog/jdk8-ga >> >> Just wondered if anyone had tried Pivot using Java 8? I know other major >> projects at Apache (including Maven, Commons, and probably others) have been >> testing pre-production versions... >> >> Cheers, >> ~Roger >> >>
