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).



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