Hi, Given Robert stated > If I'm the only one concerned, then we should not spend more time > talking about it and "just do it" instead :-)
And no one else raised any concern I will go ahead and merge the PR connected with https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SLING-11843. Hopefully that allows us to improve compatibility with Windows and Java 11/17. Thanks, Konrad > On 12. May 2023, at 14:24, Konrad Windszus <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > Currently we still build by default all our modules with Java 8 on Linux only > [1]. > In SLING-11843 I proposed to change the default to Java 11 and 17 with Linux > and Windows. > The default build (i.e. the one which deploys the Snapshot) would be Java 11 > on Linux. > > As there were some concerns raised that multiple builds may break due to this > change I would like to hear if there are any objections to raise the default > CI build in the proposed way. > In my opinion every maintained Sling module should build nowadays with Java > 11 and 17 on both Linux and Windows (to ease contributions). > All other failing modules either need to be fixes accordingly or deprecated. > > Thanks in advance for your opinions, > Konrad > > > [1] - > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SLING/Sling+module+descriptor#Slingmoduledescriptor-DefaultValues > [2] - https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SLING-11843
