On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 8:25 AM, Thomas Broyer <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On Wednesday, October 28, 2015 at 4:01:00 PM UTC+1, Jens wrote: >> >> >> The thing is, there's always a level of paranoia about GWT's impending >>> doom and apparent lack of activity shown in the gwt users group, and a >>> release coming at an unknown time helps to fuel that paranoia. >>> >> >> Maybe we should post everything in >> https://groups.google.com/a/gwtproject.org/forum/#!forum/gwt-reviews >> also to the gwt users group to defeat that paranoia once and for all. You >> would never run short on activity then ;-) >> >> >> That being said I think its fine to have RC builds even with that memory >> issue to get people test the RC. But the final release of 2.8 should have a >> fixed JDT to make sure everyone can use it. I am pretty sure there are >> quite some people who simply can not increase their heap by 50-100%. >> > > Will those people switch to Java 8 at the same time they upgrade to GWT > 2.8? I doubt it. > If (as I understand it) the leak only happens when using "-sourceLevel 8", > then I'm fine with a 2.8.0 without waiting for the fix (but a big bold > warning in the release notes), and a 2.8.1 as soon as the fix is available. > People will not be able to use '-sourceLevel 7" once the JRE patches for java 8 starts getting submitted. So the idea was to default to -sourceLevel 8. This is ok because what version GWT used to compile source doesn't effect their code so most people wouldn't have noticed it (if there wasn't a memory issue). > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "GWT Contributors" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-web-toolkit-contributors/9b8e5adf-6a64-4e4f-b44c-d649f6d5fb58%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-web-toolkit-contributors/9b8e5adf-6a64-4e4f-b44c-d649f6d5fb58%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GWT Contributors" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-web-toolkit-contributors/CAN%3DyUA0duM81ngUMcg43NYoTPt3Ct84qAG_mRxzyBkoegjwmeg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
