On Mon, 15 Nov 2021 18:27:06 GMT, Kevin Rushforth <k...@openjdk.org> wrote:
> This bumps the version of gradle used to build JavaFX to 7.3 (from the > current 7.0.1). Among other things, gradle 7.3 adds support for JDK 17, so > this is a prerequisite to update the boot JDK to JDK 17.x -- see > [JDK-8276144](https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8276144). This will > not affect the minimum version of gradle needed to build JavaFX, which > remains at 6.3 (although that version requires an even older boot JDK than we > currently use, so is not recommended). > > I included a `gradle/UPDATING.txt ` file to document the steps needed to > update to a new version of gradle. > > NOTE: The boot JDK remains at 16.0.2 with this PR, but the intent is to > update the boot JDK soon after this is integrated. To that end, I have > created PR #670 as a Draft PR to bump the boot JDK to 17.0.1. It necessarily > includes the fix from _this_ PR to update gradle to 7.3, otherwise the GitHub > Actions build would have failed. You can look at the test results from that > Draft PR to see that JDK 17.0.1 works when buliding with gradle 7.3. Builds and tests ran without issues on linux, mac and windows. ------------- Marked as reviewed by sykora (Author). PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jfx/pull/671
