Compiling on Java 9 or above will break Java 8 clients if we have code that
complies against Buffer classes.

Gary

On Tue, Feb 4, 2020, 08:49 Volkan Yazıcı <[email protected]> wrote:

> Okay. I've created a ticket[1] for this. Note that once this is done,
> migration to GitHub Actions[2] becomes straightforward. (Marked [1] as
> a blocker for [2].)
>
> [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-2771
> [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-2764
>
> On Tue, Feb 4, 2020 at 2:24 PM Matt Sicker <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > There are some compile errors if you try to use 11 for everything. If
> those
> > are fixed, we can likely use 11 for the whole build with animal sniffer
> or
> > something configured to prevent using incorrect APIs.
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 4, 2020 at 03:07 Volkan Yazıcı <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > Would somebody mind reminding me why do we need multiple JDKs for build
> > > rather than just sticking to 11 and tuning the target version whenever
> > > necessary?
> > >
> > > Kind regards.
> > >
> > --
> > Matt Sicker <[email protected]>
>

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