Hello. Le lun. 14 juin 2021 à 00:37, John Patrick <nhoj.patr...@gmail.com> a écrit : > > So I want to start using Java 11 and take advantage of Java Modules. But > with a bug in Java Multi-Jar not supporting 1.8 as base and 11 upon that, > and most dependencies I want to upgrade eventually get stuck on a commons > project holding a pure JPMS solution. > > Potentially someone raise an enhancement to drop support for Java 1.8 which > isn't happening for Java 17, but for Java 18 which is only 8 month away it > could happen. So at that point it might be a shock for commons projects as > you might be blocking open source projects, or they roll off commons > projects... just a thought. > > I've tried to do a seamless upgrade, or suggest a roadmap, but haven't got > anywhere, but think I might just raise a JEP to drop 1.8 in Java 18...
I'm not sure I don't understand what you mean. If it's about the possiblity to use JPMS: "Commons RNG" project has an example[1] showing that it seems to work when the code is used within a Java 9+ environment, even though the component itself is still targetted at Java 1.6. Regards, Gilles [1] https://gitbox.apache.org/repos/asf?p=commons-rng.git;a=tree;f=commons-rng-examples/examples-jpms;h=64999d7bd370e374fbe801d8bc376ba17ea55970;hb=HEAD >>> [...] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
