Ah, *that's* the issue I had stuck in the back of my mind now, the "not-building" one. I had somebody translated that into "not running" with Java 8 also.
thanks for clarifying, Dawid On 30/04/2015 18:03, Greg Trasuk wrote: > 2.2.x works fine with Java 8, it just doesn’t compile with Java 8. I suppose > if a given user’s build system uses classdep, then it would be a problem as > well. Do people often use classdep? I never have. > > Having said that, there was a patch contributed to make the build system work > under Java 8. I’m planning to apply that patch soon and spin a release of > 2.2.x as well. > > Cheers, > > Greg Trasuk > > On Apr 30, 2015, at 11:23 AM, Dawid Loubser <da...@travellinck.com> wrote: > >> I strongly support this! Peter's work needs to get out there and be >> battle-proven, and anything that even inches towards River/OSGi harmony >> needs to get out there so that people can experiment, build on top of, etc. >> Finally - and I may be wrong about this - River 3 will be the first >> version that plays well with Java 8? We really want to upgrade our >> production systems to Java 8, and one of the blockers is the >> (perceived?) notion that River 2.x does not work with Java 8. >> >> It's a bit off-topic, but if I'm wrong about that last part, please let >> me know :-) >> >> regards, >> Dawid Loubser >> >> On 30/04/2015 17:13, Dennis Reedy wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I didn’t want to add this to the thread that Patricia started, but IMO I’d >>> like us to push for a new release ASAP. Peter’s done a ton of work, there >>> are improvements needed to the RMI classloading approach that can help >>> projects out there today that use OSGi, and we have to do something. >>> >>> What I’d like to suggest is we create version 3.0, rename the com.sun.jini >>> namespace to org.apache.river, and produce a new release. Lets get this >>> done over the next quarter. I know there are alot of details with this >>> proposal, and esoteric discussions surrounding “what are we”, but we either >>> release or die. IMO, its that simple. >>> >>> If anyone does not like whats in 3.0, they can still use 2.2.2. If bug >>> fixes are needed for 2.2.2 we can still provide support for it. Release >>> early, release often. >>> >>> Regards >>> >>> Dennis >>
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