I'd prefer not to remove JDK 8 support. Java 8 is still widely supported and
used.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_version_history
It simplifies our build a bit but I think we'll end up getting railroaded into
supporting 2 branches - one that supports that Java 8 and gets critical patches
Hi,
please note that setting the property likely has no effect with the
additional jar-file and options. You need to download the corresponding
jar-file and add the -Xbootclasspath option to actually switch rendering,
see e.g.
Thanks Dominik. I changed the poi-ooxml gradle file for JDK8 to use
MarlinRenderingEngine in tests. I think that helped a little. The builds seemed
to hang in random places before.
The remaining issue appears to be the poi-integration tests. I disabled them
for JDK8 (again in the gradle file
https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=66598
Dominik Stadler changed:
What|Removed |Added
OS||All
Status|NEW