It seems that a lot of the current major OFBiz committers have private
forks and would be affected if patches started showing up in the trunk
that could not be adopted to their products without forcing them to
upgrade all of their customers to the Java 8 JVM.
No point creating chaos when it can be avoided with a bit of
policy-making and transparency.
Ron
On 04/03/2015 9:58 AM, Pierre Smits wrote:
Ron,
This project is not responsible for forked copies. Lets keep it that way.
Nevertheless, we can keep our
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/System+Requirements page
updated per release. So that users, potential adopters and forkers can be
aware.
Best regards,
Pierre Smits
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Based Manufacturing, Professional
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On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 3:51 PM, Ron Wheeler <[email protected]>
wrote:
Not sure what you mean?
From the ORACLE docs, can you propose a "best not to before date" for code
that only runs on Java 8?
Changes to the trunk that require a Java 8 jvm will have an impact on
anyone who wants to backport the patch or apply it to a forked copy.
I guess that we could survey the community and see how many installations
are already on a Java 8 jvm or plan to upgrade in the next n months.
Sharan is putting together a new survey and I could formulate a few
questions on this topic.
Ron
On 04/03/2015 9:36 AM, Jacques Le Roux wrote:
I think we could use Oracle date and that would apply only to trunk
anyway...
Jacques
Le 04/03/2015 14:12, Ron Wheeler a écrit :
The real question is:
"At what date are we going to allow code to be added to the product that
will not run on the Java 7 jvm?"
or
"At what date will releases cease to be tested for their ability to run
on a Java 7 jvm."
As soon as someone adds lamdas or streams or any of the new Java 8
features, OFBiz will not run on earlier jvms.
Certainly, there is no reason not to recommend that new installation or
existing installations move to the Java 8 jvm.
Ron
On 04/03/2015 3:43 AM, Jacques Le Roux wrote:
All living ones are ready https://issues.apache.org/
jira/browse/OFBIZ-5835
Jacques
Le 04/03/2015 08:45, Pierre Smits a écrit :
With/from which release branch should we default java 8?
Best regards,
Pierre
Op woensdag 4 maart 2015 heeft Jacques Le Roux <
[email protected]>
het volgende geschreven:
FYI, just read at https://twitter.com/java
<<After April 2015, Oracle will not post further updates of Java SE 7
to
its public download sites. http://ow.ly/Iz25J>> <
http://t.co/7ZCwLmt402>
I think it's time for us to declare Java 8 our recommended version.
Jacques
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