I have an env variable that should allow using a different JVM to launch Jenkins from the JVM to run the acceptance test harness...
of course my refactoring will split all this out into separate modules, so the selenium stuff will be able to use Java 8 safely On 11 April 2014 16:01, Kohsuke Kawaguchi <[email protected]> wrote: > What I found out was that because of the bug in Jenkins core that prevents > it from running with Java8, using Java8 for the development made it > somewhat painful. I needed to set use one version of JDK for "mvn > -Pjut-server" while another for running tests itself. > > So I got discouraged a bit and it's still as it was before. IIRC the last > 1.532 does contain a fix for XStream JDK8 issue, so at that point it'll > hopelly let us switch more easily. > > > 2014-04-11 0:32 GMT-07:00 Ulli Hafner <[email protected]>: > > Since there are no complaints yet, are we moving to Java8 now? >> >> Am 20.03.2014 um 19:30 schrieb Kohsuke Kawaguchi <[email protected]>: >> >> In acceptance-test-harness, tests run in one JVM, and Jenkins runs in >> another JVM (on possibly another computer), so no, this does not preclude >> testing Jenkins running on AIX, which I assume is what you care more. >> >> Presumably you don't really care whether you can run the tests itself on >> AIX. >> >> >> 2014-03-20 10:26 GMT-07:00 teilo <[email protected]>: >> >>> Would this preclude running the tests on AIX. >>> Not that we do - but AIX users do pop their heads up on the list from >>> time to time. >>> >>> That said I am not involved - nor do I have AIX so just wanted to throw >>> this out there. >>> >>> >>> On Wednesday, 19 March 2014 00:26:35 UTC, Kohsuke Kawaguchi wrote: >>>> >>>> Now that Java8 came out, what do people think about requiring Java8 for >>>> https://github.com/jenkinsci/acceptance-test-harness/ ? >>>> >>>> I could really use closures in a number of places, and I think this is >>>> one of the few places where this kind of cutting-edge dependencies are OK, >>>> since you can launch Jenkins-under-test with arbitrary versions of JVM. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Kohsuke Kawaguchi >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "Jenkins Developers" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Kohsuke Kawaguchi >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Jenkins Developers" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Jenkins Developers" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > > > -- > Kohsuke Kawaguchi > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Jenkins Developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
