Strong -1 on Java 8 as the minimum version. Google Cloud Platform has lots of products and customers that still require Java 7. If Maven requires Java 8, we'd have to stick to the latest of whichever release does support Java 7 for at least a year and I'm guessing longer.
On Sat, Sep 28, 2019 at 8:04 AM Robert Scholte <rfscho...@apache.org> wrote: > > Hi, > > TLDR; introduce maven.experimental.buildconsumer and push Java requirement > to Java 8 > > now that Maven 3.6.2 is out for a couple of weeks, it seems like we didn't > face real regressions. > The only one might be tricky is the issue related to Tycho. > > However, I think we're ready to push Maven to the next level. > > For those actively reading this list, they should recognize the need for > splitting up the pom as it is on the local system versus the pom being > uploaded. Once we truly control this mechanism we can think of > improvements on model 5.0.0 and new fileformats. > > I've created and implemented MNG-6656[1]. It also contains a zip with an > example (original, patched, README) to understand what's happening. > > In order to make this successful, we need IDEs and CI Servers to > understand and support these changes. The likely need to implement one of > the interfaces[2]. > The new interface uses Java8 Functions (and especially SAXEventFactory is > way easier to read+maintain with Java 8). I've tried to keep Maven Java 7 > compatible, but that was too hard to do. > So I'd like to use this opportunity to move Maven forward and start > requiring Java 8. > > There are some other improvements I'd like to add (those messages will > follow), so this will imply that it will take some time before we do a new > release. > > WDTY, > Robert > > [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNG-6656 > [2] https://github.com/apache/maven/compare/MNG-6656?expand=1 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org > -- Elliotte Rusty Harold elh...@ibiblio.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org
