I’m fine with it too. I’ve been using FB with 1.8 for a while.


In my opinion, we’re not in the business of forcing anyone to do anything. 
Options are a good thing.



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From: Piotr Zarzycki <piotrzarzyck...@gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, December 24, 2018 9:20:58 AM
To: dev@royale.apache.org
Subject: Re: Royale Java versions

+1. We have new IDE Moonshine and VSCode. Maybe it's force people who using
still FB to finally drop that IDE to some modern one.

Thanks, Piotr

On Mon, Dec 24, 2018, 8:15 AM Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com.invalid> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Royale is currently using Google Closure Compiler from June 2017.  There
> is a bug in that version and even the latest Closure Compiler that is
> blocking release-mode module loading.  Google appears to be willing to fix
> the bug, so that got me started on upgrading the Closure Compiler we bundle
> to the latest release so we can quickly test out any fix for the module
> issue.  Historically, when we upgrade Closure Compiler, there are changes
> we need to make in our code to get Royale to work again, and it is
> definitely true this time.  However, it appears that Closure Compiler is
> now dependent on a version of Guava that requires Java 8.  We currently
> allow Java 7 for Royale.  Any objections to dropping Java 7?  There are
> hacks to upgrade Flash Builder to run on Java 8, so that shouldn't be an
> issue.
>
> Thoughts?
> -Alex
>
>

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