Are you saying we should use something older?
Currently, we say Helios is the version to use, primarily because that's what
was used by the Adobe team at the time the code base was donated to Apache, and
partially out of concern of being able to generate the Flash Builder plugin
that required Java 6. I could not find information indicating that Helios
could be patched to support Java 8.
If we pick an older version, at least one of us needs to use that oldest
version. So far, the latest Eclipse is working where Helios did not.
-Alex
On 12/24/18, 11:54 PM, "Harbs" <harbs.li...@gmail.com> wrote:
I’m using 4.7.2 with no apparent problems.
I’m pretty sure that anything 4.4 or later should work. That’s 4.5 years
old. I can’t imagine why someone would want to stick with such an old version
of Eclipse, but it looks like it’s possible to add support for Java 8 in even
older versions.[1]
Harbs
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> On Dec 25, 2018, at 9:21 AM, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com.INVALID> wrote:
>
> Looks like requiring Java 8 might result in a requirement to upgrade
Eclipse. I'm going to try the latest Eclipse. Speak up if you can think of a
reason we should use an older one.
>
> -Alex
>
> On 12/24/18, 12:01 AM, "Yishay Weiss" <yishayj...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> 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
>>
>>
>
>
