> On Jul 10, 2018, at 12:53 PM, Stephen Colebourne <scolebou...@joda.org> wrote:
>
> Look at Joda-Convert/Joda-Parent for example. A Java 6 project that
> builds on Java 8 or later, and has a module-info.java.
>
> Cobertura just needs replacing with JaCoCo.
>
> FindBugs replaced by SpotBugs
>
> Lots of plugin versions updated.
>
> And lots of profiles, as per Joda-Convert/Joda-Parent
>
> Stephen
> https://github.com/JodaOrg/joda-convert
> https://github.com/JodaOrg/joda-parent
Thanks Stephen. How far behind the java release cycle (in months) do you find
that you are?
>
>
>
> On 10 July 2018 at 17:32, Rob Tompkins <chtom...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> It occurs to me that we are in a bit of a predicament in terms of being able
>> to remain current with java, if the projected 6-month release to EOL cycle
>> for major versions of java indeed continues. For example, as of now java9 is
>> EOL, yet we still don’t have sufficient build tools (maybe almost) to even
>> think about doing a release building with java9, let alone the current
>> version of java, v10. For example, [lang] fails on mvn -Prelease
>> -Ptest-deploy clean test site deploy on java10 with the following error:
>>
>> [ERROR] Failed to execute goal
>> org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-site-plugin:3.7.1:site (default-site) on
>> project commons-lang3: failed to get report for
>> org.codehaus.mojo:cobertura-maven-plugin: Plugin
>> org.codehaus.mojo:cobertura-maven-plugin:2.7 or one of its dependencies
>> could not be resolved: Could not find artifact com.sun:tools:jar:0 at
>> specified path
>> /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk-10.0.1.jdk/Contents/Home/../lib/tools.jar
>>
>> What are we to do if they keep up this cycle? Depressing as it may seem, I
>> don’t see the current OSS java ecosystem sustainable. We won’t get stable
>> maven build plugins fast enough to keep up. We can keep building to java8,
>> but I don’t know what to do with higher versions.
>>
>> Any thoughts or ideas? Everything that I can think of is ugly at best.
>>
>> -Rob
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