I created a poll to gather feedback and help in our decision to upgrade the minimum JDK version to 8: http://goo.gl/forms/yqGss6gxOA I appreciate if you could help us by answering just those 2 questions, it should take some seconds. Thank you! On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 7:05 AM, George Gastaldi <ggastald(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: > Hi Ivan, thanks for the feedback. > > Yeah, I was thinking of removing that or move it to a maven profile that > is activated when the project builds on JDK7 only (that can be done now). > > So far the only objection I have received about moving to JDK8 is from > the Fabric8 team asking that this should be done in Forge 3: > https://twitter.com/davsclaus/status/651632079566950400?s=09 > > Best Regards, > Em 07/10/2015 04:36, "Ivan St. Ivanov" <ivan.st.ivanov(a)gmail.com&gt; > escreveu: > >> The problem with Java 9 is that you can't run tests, because the JVM >> that runs them won't start. If you want to run with Java 9, you have to >> either run the build with -DskipTests or remove this from pom.xml. >> >> On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 10:10 AM, Daniel Cunha <danielsoro(a)gmail.com&gt; >> wrote: >> >>> Make sense remove it from the pom if we go to Java 8. :) >>> Can you share your problem with Java 9? (even though we don't have a >>> final version of Java 9 ATM) >>> >>> On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 3:40 AM, Ivan St. Ivanov < >>> ivan.st.ivanov(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Geroge, >>>> >>>> That's wonderful! Finally we can rewrite all those anonymous inner >>>> classes with lambdas. And use streams. And sometimes Optional in the APIs :) >>>> >>>> Do you plan to remove this from the root pom: >>>> >>>> <plugin> >>>> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> >>>> <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId> >>>> <configuration> >>>> <argLine>-Xms256m -Xmx512m -XX:MaxPermSize=160m</argLine> >>>> </configuration> >>>> </plugin> >>>> >>>> It doesn't make sense anymore. But has been bugging me all the time >>>> when I try to build Forge with Java 9 (it's an error there). >>>> >>>> Cheers, >>>> Ivan >>>> >>>> >>>> On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 8:43 AM, Daniel Cunha <danielsoro(a)gmail.com&gt; >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> I agree with that! :) >>>>> >>>>> +1 for Java 8. >>>>> >>>>> On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 2:23 AM, George Gastaldi <ggastald(a)redhat.com&gt; >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Hello Forge users, >>>>>> >>>>>> For the next minor release, I'd like to make JDK8 the minimum >>>>>> requirement. >>>>>> >>>>>> The JBoss Tools team is already using JDK8 as the minimum >>>>>> requirement for their new versions. We are already running our build in >>>>>> JDK8 (with sources set to 1.7 still) >>>>>> >>>>>> Is there any objection? Say it now or forever hold your peace, >>>>>> because the Forge train never stops ;) >>>>>> >>>>>> Best Regards, love you all! >>>>>> >>>>>> George Gastaldi >>>>>> >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> forge-dev mailing list >>>>>> forge-dev(a)lists.jboss.org >>>>>> https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/forge-dev >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Daniel Cunha (soro) >>>>> https://twitter.com/dvlc_ >>>>> http://www.tomitribe.com >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> forge-dev mailing list >>>>> forge-dev(a)lists.jboss.org >>>>> https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/forge-dev >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> forge-dev mailing list >>>> forge-dev(a)lists.jboss.org >>>> https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/forge-dev >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Daniel Cunha (soro) >>> https://twitter.com/dvlc_ >>> http://www.tomitribe.com >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> forge-dev mailing list >>> forge-dev(a)lists.jboss.org >>> https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/forge-dev >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> forge-dev mailing list >> forge-dev(a)lists.jboss.org >> https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/forge-dev >> > -- *George Gastaldi | Senior Software Engineer* JBoss Forge Team T: +55 11 3524-6169 M: +55 47 9711-1000 _______________________________________________ forge-dev mailing list forge-dev(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/forge-dev