On 03/20/2014 03:50 PM, Konstantin Komissarchik wrote:
I am wondering if we should do a limited SR release to pickup Java 8
patches. As it stands, Eclipse users interested in Java 8 would have
to hunt for and install at least two patches, which doesn't paint
Eclipse in a good light.
This
On 03/27/2014 08:32 AM, Mickael Istria wrote:
On 03/20/2014 03:50 PM, Konstantin Komissarchik wrote:
I am wondering if we should do a limited SR release to pickup Java 8
patches. As it stands, Eclipse users interested in Java 8 would have
to hunt for and install at least two patches, which
Why do you see this as a major regression?
There's no problem beside that using java7 as compile target when you
use JRE8 in the project.
Tom
On 27.03.14 08:38, Mickael Istria wrote:
On 03/27/2014 08:32 AM, Mickael Istria wrote:
On 03/20/2014 03:50 PM, Konstantin Komissarchik wrote:
I am
Am 27.03.2014 02:46, schrieb Alexander Nyßen:
Eike and David, thanks for your detailed answers!
David, indeed I was aware about the versioning guidelines document in the wiki,
but I was not exactly sure about whether
I really had understood it correctly. It seems I had, so I will probably have
I agree, that this is unfortunate and should be fixed.
But doesn’t that only affect users, who have installed Java 8 plus the
Eclipse-support *and*
are using an environment for Java 8 but have the compiler set to something
below 8?
Is that something many people do? If so they will likely run
On 27/03/2014 6:18 AM, Sven Efftinge wrote:
So IMHO this is not a stopper for having a more prominent download for
the Java 8 support.
Just so everyone knows, the Eclipse Foundation is considering taking the
following steps to raise awareness of our Java 8 support. This is coming
partially
On 03/27/2014 04:36 PM, Daniel Megert wrote:
Forwarding John's note to eclipse-dev [1] to hopefully get more
responses.
Dani
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Please reply to this if you are regularly using and testing Eclipse
Platform Luna integration builds on Windows 8. The Eclipse project PMC
I had previously posted this under the Kepler SR3 for Java 8? thread,
but I think that was a mistake. Rather than hijacking that thread I am
going to start a new one.
Just so everyone knows, the Eclipse Foundation is considering taking the
following steps to raise awareness of our Java 8
On 27/03/2014 1:28 PM, Konstantin Komissarchik wrote:
Well, it is more work, but it shouldn't be a lot of work since the
bulk of it is automated and I would think that the value to Eclipse
community and Eclipse reputation would outweigh the investment.
My impression is that there is no
On 3/27/2014 12:37 PM, Mike Milinkovich wrote:
On 27/03/2014 2:31 PM, Scott Lewis wrote:
Would you include links (or other page) to j8-enabled features from
other EF projects?...In my case it will be ECFs use of j8 with OSGi
remote services [1]...but there are possibly other EF projects that
You seem to be saying that I don't know how these releases are put together
or who does the work. That's low.
You are quite right that there is no consensus. It is quite sad to see this.
There is lots of talk about needing to make ensure that Eclipse remains
competitive, but when time comes to
Clearly debating this further will not lead to anything productive, so how
about this instead.
I will volunteer to write a script that takes existing Kepler SR2 packages,
installs the Java 8 patches into them and re-packages them. I will do all
the work if I have a commitment to publish these
Konstantin, thanks for the offer. I have added it to the list of
alternatives the Planning Council will discuss next Wednesday, but off the
top of my head, I think simply applying the patches (without the normal
development cycle of community feedback, and testing) sounds a bit
dangerous for
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