Thanks for the heads up, the issue hadn't been closed so I thought it wasn't done. Any idea if we'd want to update to 33.1?
On Thursday, September 6, 2018 at 5:59:21 AM UTC+2, Slava Pankov wrote: > > IMO even "Update CLDR to version 32.0.1 > <https://github.com/gwtproject/gwt/commit/f81fc698d51cf26f89faca5dde7cf4d1276cce85>" > > is worth for releasing GWT 2.9 > > On Wednesday, September 5, 2018 at 2:57:34 AM UTC-7, Thomas Broyer wrote: >> >> Replying to everyone in one go. >> >> On Wednesday, September 5, 2018 at 9:12:38 AM UTC+2, Josselin B. wrote: >>> >>> Hi Jens, >>> >>> Any idea for a release date of GWT 2.x ? >>> >> >> No. You can follow advancement at >> https://github.com/gwtproject/gwt/milestone/19 (it doesn't move much >> though…) >> For now, it didn't seem urgent to release a 2.9, as 2.8.2 works great for >> 99.9% of people. >> >> >>> Will it add better support for java interface default functions ? >>> >> >> What do you mean? >> I can't remember issues related to interface default methods (lambdas and >> method references, sure, but not interface default methods) >> >> >>> Le mer. 5 sept. 2018 à 09:07, Jens <[email protected]> a écrit : >>> >>>> GWT 2.x will not drop JSNI anytime soon, only GWT 3 will as it uses a >>>> different Java -> JavaScript compiler internally. And yes there is really >>>> no timeline for GWT 3 as most work is done by contributors in free time. >>>> Currently we are trying to migrate GWT 2.x SDK code so it will become GWT >>>> 3 >>>> compatible with mostly no breaking changes. This process happens on Github >>>> and you can see a list of projects being converted here: >>>> ci.vertispan.com . Also some people are working on build plugins to >>>> provide a better experience out of the box. >>>> >>>> GWT 2.x SNAPSHOT already supports Java 10 syntax, however no Java 9 + >>>> 10 API additions have been emulated yet in GWT SDK, so you can not use new >>>> Optional methods and such things. Also some Java 8 APIs are still missing. >>>> >>>> The only syntax addition of Java 11 is using 'var' for lambda >>>> parameters. GWT depends on Eclipse JDT stable release in order to support >>>> new syntax features. If you don't use that feature then you should >>>> probably >>>> be able to run current GWT with Java 11, haven't tried it though. Never >>>> used OpenJDK with GWT but I can't think of a reason why it should not work. >>>> >>> >> I (almost) exclusively use OpenJDK, and never had any problem. >> Also, OpenJDK 11 and Oracle JDK 11 will (finally) be functionally the >> same, so if GWT works with Oracle JDK 11, it *will* work with OpenJDK 11. >> >> GWT 2.8.2 works with OpenJDK 10 and Oracle JDK 10 already, and while I >> haven't tested I see no reason it wouldn't work with JDK 11 (the big change >> was Jigsaw/JPMS in JDK 9). >> >> Fwiw, my plan (personal and at work, not for GWT proper) is staying on >> OpenJDK 8 for a little while (switching from Oracle JDK 8 to OpenJDK 8 if >> needed). It looks like there will be many OpenJDK packages with LTS support >> (most Linux distros, AdoptOpenJDK, Zulu) so I may switch to OpenJDK 11 at >> some point, but I bet it won't be before a year… (first and foremost, our >> customers clearly aren't ready; some are only just switching off of Java 7 >> …up to Java 8) >> > -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
