Sounds great, thanks! Probably best done as 2 separate steps, because after updating the build scripts, everything else can begin in parallel?
On Sun, Jan 7, 2018 at 10:38 PM Jean-Baptiste Onofré <j...@nanthrax.net> wrote: > Hi Eugene, > > I'm taking the build update: Maven/Gradle with enforcer + merge of the > examples > all together. > > Regards > JB > > On 01/08/2018 07:34 AM, Eugene Kirpichov wrote: > > The vote on user@ about switching to Java 8 has concluded, > affirmatively. > > > > What needs to be done to complete the switch? I can see at least the > following: > > - Change maven and gradle scripts to use 1.8 source and target version > > - Fix resulting compilation/test errors (Java8 has slightly different > type > > checking, more minor issues may arise) > > - Remove all special-casing of java8 in build scripts > > - Merge all modules like "java8 examples" and "java8 tests" into > respective > > non-"java8" modules > > - Organize an effort to modernize code to use Java 8 constructs where > > appropriate. Especially important to modernize examples. To a large > extent this > > can probably be automated with an IDE. > > > > Anything else? > > > > -- > Jean-Baptiste Onofré > jbono...@apache.org > http://blog.nanthrax.net > Talend - http://www.talend.com >
