Looks like requiring Java 8 might result in a requirement to upgrade Eclipse. I'm going to try the latest Eclipse. Speak up if you can think of a reason we should use an older one.
-Alex On 12/24/18, 12:01 AM, "Yishay Weiss" <[email protected]> wrote: I’m fine with it too. I’ve been using FB with 1.8 for a while. In my opinion, we’re not in the business of forcing anyone to do anything. Options are a good thing. ________________________________ From: Piotr Zarzycki <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, December 24, 2018 9:20:58 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Royale Java versions +1. We have new IDE Moonshine and VSCode. Maybe it's force people who using still FB to finally drop that IDE to some modern one. Thanks, Piotr On Mon, Dec 24, 2018, 8:15 AM Alex Harui <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Royale is currently using Google Closure Compiler from June 2017. There > is a bug in that version and even the latest Closure Compiler that is > blocking release-mode module loading. Google appears to be willing to fix > the bug, so that got me started on upgrading the Closure Compiler we bundle > to the latest release so we can quickly test out any fix for the module > issue. Historically, when we upgrade Closure Compiler, there are changes > we need to make in our code to get Royale to work again, and it is > definitely true this time. However, it appears that Closure Compiler is > now dependent on a version of Guava that requires Java 8. We currently > allow Java 7 for Royale. Any objections to dropping Java 7? There are > hacks to upgrade Flash Builder to run on Java 8, so that shouldn't be an > issue. > > Thoughts? > -Alex > >
