[forge-users] [forge-dev] JDK 8

[George Gastaldi]

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 at redhat.com> 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 at gmail.com>
> 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 at gmail.com>
>> 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 at gmail.com> 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 at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I agree with that! :)
>>>>>
>>>>> +1 for Java 8.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 2:23 AM, George Gastaldi <ggastald at redhat.com>
>>>>> 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
>>>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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