On Tue, Jan 24, 2023 at 9:22 PM Jonah Graham <jo...@kichwacoders.com> wrote:
> +1 for moving to Java 17 for BREE. > > IIRC on past BREE upgrades various sub-parts of Platform held back on > older versions. Is the proposal to remove those special cases for the move > to Java 17? > Strictly speaking for eclipse.platform ( https://github.com/orgs/eclipse-platform/repositories) repositories this used to be only SWT but I don't think we should preserve that exception. I've sent this email deliberately to platform-dev as core parts of Equinox are at 1.8 even now (for a reason AFAIK) and I'm not JDT committer to influence that decision there. PDE on the other hand will have to follow Platform as it will be forced by such a move. > > Jonah > > ~~~ > Jonah Graham > Kichwa Coders > www.kichwacoders.com > > > On Tue, 24 Jan 2023 at 14:12, Aleksandar Kurtakov <akurt...@redhat.com> > wrote: > >> Hey everyone, >> Our test dependencies (e.g. reddeer), our build tool (tycho) and etc. >> already require Java 17 thus the whole releng is using Java 17 now with no >> dependency on Java 11 anymore. >> Due to that there are already test bundles that target Java 17 and use >> Java 17 language features. Feel free to do so even more. >> As automated Java 11 testing is impossible nowadays I think it's time for >> us to allow bundles to go to Java 17 BREE after March release. >> I welcome constructive discussion which should include how and who is >> going to take care of Java 11 testing/verification if there is disagreement >> for this move. >> >> -- >> Aleksandar Kurtakov >> Red Hat Eclipse Team >> _______________________________________________ >> platform-dev mailing list >> platform-dev@eclipse.org >> To unsubscribe from this list, visit >> https://www.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/platform-dev >> > _______________________________________________ > platform-dev mailing list > platform-dev@eclipse.org > To unsubscribe from this list, visit > https://www.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/platform-dev > -- Aleksandar Kurtakov Red Hat Eclipse Team
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