Thanks for the clarification. That will push me in the right direction. If I ever get it built someday, then I’ll try to remember to submit a PR to mention the version requirement somewhere in the docs.
I’ll just concentrate on the pre-built for now version then. Cheers, =David On Apr 27, 2020 15:44 +0900, Matthieu Baechler <matth...@apache.org>, wrote: > On Mon, 2020-04-27 at 15:32 +0900, David Leangen (Apache) wrote: > > Thank you, Rene. > > > > Is that a hard requirement? If so, then I will have to wait until we > > update to Java 11 (which is not scheduled at this time), so I’ll > > likely have to abandon for now. > > > > Shouldn’t it be possible to compile in Java 8, though? This page > > states that JRE8 is the requirement: > > > > —> https://james.apache.org/server/quick-start.html > > This guide is about deploying an already-compile James server. > > Up to James 3.5 (which has a pending release), you could run with Java > 8 JRE. > > Starting with James 3.6, you'll need Java 11. > > What you are trying to do is to compile it yourself, the requirements > are differents. > > For some times now (probably 3.4) we use Java 11 compiler but target > Java 8. > > Cheers, > > -- Matthieu Baechler > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: server-user-unsubscr...@james.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: server-user-h...@james.apache.org >
