I missed seeing this reply yesterday. We can't bump the minimum to JDK
17 until at least JavaFX 18 without changing our policy that JavaFX N is
able to build and run with JDK N-1. If we were to change that we would
also need to delay our release to be after JDK 17 date (currently JavaFX
N is released a week ahead of JDK N). Also, there are technical
challenges building with the JDK 17 EA as a moving target (at least for
the next few weeks) that we would need to deal with. In summary, I would
not want to propose this.
-- Kevin
On 5/18/2021 8:33 AM, Michael Strauß wrote:
Sounds good, although it is a bit unfortunate that sealed classes will
only be un-previewed in JDK 17. I think this feature has great value
for reasoning about code, in particular for library development. Do
you think we could bump it directly to JDK 17, which I think is very
fitting because it's the next LTS release, after all.
Am Di., 18. Mai 2021 um 17:17 Uhr schrieb Kevin Rushforth
<kevin.rushfo...@oracle.com>:
A very timely question. I was already planning to raise this as a
discussion after we update our boot JDK to JDK 16 (blocked by the
in-progress gradle 7 update), which I hope to do later this week.
I think that this is the right time to consider bumping the minimum
required version to run JavaFX 17 to JDK 16, which would allow us to
start using APIs and language features from JDK 12 through JDK 16 inclusive.
In general, we only guarantee that JavaFX N runs on JDK N-1 or later. In
practice, though, we don't bump it for each release, as there are some
advantages in being able to run with the latest JDK LTS. Since JavaFX 17
will release at roughly the same time as JDK 17 LTS, I can't think of a
good reason to not update our minimum.
Comments?
-- Kevin
On 5/18/2021 7:59 AM, Michael Strauß wrote:
Currently, JDK 11 is required for the latest version of OpenJFX. What
is the policy for bumping this requirement? Does it always correspond
to the latest JDK LTS release (the next of which will be JDK 17), or
is it independent from the release cycle of OpenJDK?
