On Mon, 2023-05-15 at 12:51 +0000, Stefan Seifert wrote: > > > The concern I raised was on making it hard to fix a module because > > we > > introduce multiple changes > > > > - Java 8 → Java 11, Java 17 > > - Linux → Linux, Windows > > > > That will make it more difficult to get the module building again. > > I am > > not _that_ worried about Windows, I am more thinking about the need > > to > > update the parent POM to >= 35 for Java 11, which brings the > > migration to > > bnd and to the official OSGi annotations. > > what would be your proposal to make this less painful? add java 11 > and java 17 builds but not remove java 8 builds yet, so it's easier > to detect in the different Jenkins builds results that it's still > fine with java 8; and remove the java 8 build later? >
I was thinking of a set of gradual changes: 1. Add Windows alongside Linux 2. Add Java 11 3. Add Java 17, drop Java 8 Thanks, Robert
