Maybe we updated Mockito without checking its platform requirements?

Gary

On Fri, Dec 1, 2023, 4:18 AM Joseph Kesselman <kesh...@alum.mit.edu> wrote:

> We may want to require at least 11 for build. Mockito apparently requires
> a newer release than 8,  so we're limited in our ability to start adding
> unit tests.
>
> (Our current test suite. as you know, is focused on
> conformance/integration tests. That's necessary, and with code coverage
> measurements it's less than awful, but the industry expectations have been
> moving since this started and if folks want to start doing deeper testing
> that's a good thing. If people start nitpicking each other to death over
> missing tests rather than adding the desired tests themselves,  that would
> be a bad thing.)
>
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> ------------------------------
> *From:* Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, November 29, 2023 6:58:14 PM
> *To:* dev@xalan.apache.org <dev@xalan.apache.org>
> *Subject:* Re: Should we still promise Java 8 support?
>
> There is no Apache wide recommendation,  each project decides what is best
> for itself.
>
> IMO, we should release one last maintenance release on Java 8 and then go
> directly to Java 17.
>
> Gary
>
> On Wed, Nov 29, 2023, 6:41 PM Joseph Kessselman <kesh...@alum.mit.edu>
> wrote:
>
> Java 8 was released in 2014, almost a decade ago.
>
> Since then there have been two Long-Term Stability releases: Java 11
> (2018) and 17 (2021).
>
> I'm wondering whether we still have anyone who really needs to run
> Xalan on Java 8, or if we can/should move our minimum requirement
> forward at least to 11 since some of our tooling may start to require it
> soon.
>
> If we agree this change is acceptable/desirable, I can post a note to
> the users list asking whether people would scream.
>
> We could also add a Java version check in Xalan at startup (if there
> isn't one already) warning folks when they are on an unsupported or
> deprecated level of Java, and declare 8 deprecated for a while.
>
> Not a high priority, but worth considering.
>
> Does Apache have anything resembling a recommendation on this?
>
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>
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