Rejoice! IBM AIX and z/OS now have a GA Java8 version. http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21696670
Is it time to revisit this once more? /James On Thursday, 25 September 2014 16:20:35 UTC+1, Jesse Glick wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 8:47 PM, Mark Waite <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > > I added a new test to the git client plugin which depended on a Java 7 > NIO > > feature. It failed to compile in my test configuration with Java 6. > > I think it is fine to require Java 7 in tests; there was already a > proposal which met with no controversy to require 7 for building > plugins, while continuing to use -target 6 and Animal Sniffer to > prevent accidental use of 7+ APIs or bytecode (*). Requiring 8 for > building plugins, and thus allowing -source 8 features in > src/test/java/**/*.java (**), would be a natural next step, a bit > controversial but much less so than requiring 8 for running Jenkins > itself. > > > (*) Of course this means functional tests do not find runtime problems > occurring on 6 despite lack of linkage errors. But the alternative of > running tests on 6 just means the reverse problem, that behavioral > changes in 7 which break the plugin are not caught; and this is worse, > since many more people will really be running on 7. > > (**) The upcoming version of Animal Sniffer allows you to skip checks > on test-scope dependencies. But it might not yet allow checks to be > skipped on src/test/java/**/*.java, which is not a dependency; will > need to look into it. > -- 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/c7fd3bd4-26f6-488f-a4bc-52bbf0a8dbad%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
