I agree with Rob. A common sense approach would be to require 1.6 for T5.4 and then require 1.8 in a future version.
Kalle On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 9:54 AM, Robert Zeigler <robert.zeig...@roxanemy.com>wrote: > Not opposed to an upgrade to Java 8, but not sure 5.4 is the right time > for it. 5.4 has been long-enough in coming that I feel it would be better > to release 5.4, and use 5.5 as the java8 upgrade, possibly with a fairly > short release time between 5.4 and 5.5. Basically, 5.5 could be “5.4 with > java 8 compatibility” (and whatever new features (like the httpOnly cookie > flag ticket you commented on recently) that would need > java 1.5 to > support). > > Robert > > On May 1, 2014, at 5/111:38 AM , Ulrich Stärk <u...@spielviel.de> wrote: > > > Historically I have been a strong opponent to Java version upgrades for > Tapestry because IMO the > > disadvantages outweighed the advantages by far. > > > > Now that we have lambda expressions, default methods, Nashorn and many > other useful features I'm > > leaning towards making a radical break and switch to Java 8. > > > > We should have a formal vote for such a radical change and a discussion > firstin order to gather > > comments and opinions from the community. > > > > Uli > > > > On 2014-04-30 12:57, Jochen Kemnade wrote: > >> Am 29.04.2014 21:07, schrieb Jochen Kemnade: > >>> I'll downgrade it tomorrow and get myself a Java 1.5 compiler... > >> > >> Which is much harder than I thought it was. I managed to find old > rt.jar and jce.jar files and to > >> make Gradle use them. > >> Now I'm getting compile errors, e.g. in VirtualResource:88, > MacOutputStream:45 and others. Mostly, > >> it's Java 6 methods being used. > >> First of all, do we still want to stick with Java 5 now that Java 8 is > out and even Java 6 is EOL? > >> Second, I wonder why it builds in Jenkins. What JDK is used there? > >> > >> Jochen > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tapestry.apache.org > >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tapestry.apache.org > >> > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tapestry.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tapestry.apache.org > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tapestry.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tapestry.apache.org > >
