Any word on what has happened here? It's now late October and we haven't seen a release for a year.
On Friday, September 4, 2015 at 3:07:29 AM UTC-6, Jens wrote: > > According to the last steering group meeting minutes, the release of 2.8 > is only waiting for JsInterop 1.0 to be finalized. The meeting minutes say > that this is expected to happen at the end of september. If this holds true > you will see a release relatively shortly after that. The lack of Java 8 > API emulations (java.time, streams, etc) is not considered a blocker and is > expected to be provided by contributors. I have already done some work on > that and together with Colin Alworth and James Nelson we plan to tackle > java.time and streams. But as we will work on that in our free time, > chances are that it will not be part of GWT 2.8 yet. > > So with a 2.8 release the worst thing you can get is Java 8 syntax > (lambdas, method references, default/static interface methods, intersection > casts), stable JsInterop annotations, better SDM, lots of bug fixes. In the > best case you also get some Java 8 API emulations. I guess there will be a > 2.8.1 shortly after with additional Java 8 API emulations. > > Also according to the meeting minutes the new GWT compiler is expected to > work at the end of the year. This would then act as the base for an > upcoming GWT 3.0 release. > > -- J. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GWT Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
