Re: [xwiki-users] [xwiki-devs] [VOTE] Move to Java 8 as minimal version for XWiki 8.0+

2016-02-09 Thread Caleb James DeLisle
+1 because better the developers and the users run the same major version of the JVM and I think most of the devs are already running 8. Thanks, Caleb On 10/02/16 07:17, Manuel Smeria wrote: +1 Thanks, Manuel On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 10:53 PM, Paul Libbrecht wrote: vinc...@massol.net wrot

Re: [xwiki-users] [xwiki-devs] [VOTE] Move to Java 8 as minimal version for XWiki 8.0+

2016-02-09 Thread Manuel Smeria
+1 Thanks, Manuel On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 10:53 PM, Paul Libbrecht wrote: > > > vinc...@massol.net wrote: > >> Just found this: http://java.com/en/download/help/sysreq.xml > > > > This is for Oracle’s JVM but all you need is to find a Java 8 JVM that > works for your OS. I don’t know the require

Re: [xwiki-users] [xwiki-devs] [VOTE] Move to Java 8 as minimal version for XWiki 8.0+

2016-02-09 Thread Paul Libbrecht
vinc...@massol.net wrote: >> Just found this: http://java.com/en/download/help/sysreq.xml > > This is for Oracle’s JVM but all you need is to find a Java 8 JVM that works > for your OS. I don’t know the requirements for OpenJDK or other JVMs. cool. Sounds rather acceptable to me. +1. (non-bindin

Re: [xwiki-users] [xwiki-devs] [VOTE] Move to Java 8 as minimal version for XWiki 8.0+

2016-02-09 Thread vinc...@massol.net
On 9 Feb 2016 at 18:34:24, vinc...@massol.net (vinc...@massol.net(mailto:vinc...@massol.net)) wrote: > > > On 9 Feb 2016 at 18:21:27, Paul Libbrecht > (p...@hoplahup.net(mailto:p...@hoplahup.net)) wrote: > > > Vincent, > > > > can you state which minimum MacOSX, Ubuntu, and Windows versi

Re: [xwiki-users] [xwiki-devs] [VOTE] Move to Java 8 as minimal version for XWiki 8.0+

2016-02-09 Thread vinc...@massol.net
On 9 Feb 2016 at 18:21:27, Paul Libbrecht (p...@hoplahup.net(mailto:p...@hoplahup.net)) wrote: > Vincent, > > can you state which minimum MacOSX, Ubuntu, and Windows version this means? > I know 10.6 is out and I've been challenged for this since XWiki moved > to Java7 already but that's past

Re: [xwiki-users] [xwiki-devs] [VOTE] Move to Java 8 as minimal version for XWiki 8.0+

2016-02-09 Thread Paul Libbrecht
Vincent, can you state which minimum MacOSX, Ubuntu, and Windows version this means? I know 10.6 is out and I've been challenged for this since XWiki moved to Java7 already but that's past (my solution was, then, to not upgrade my wiki). It'd be interesting to know the coming limitations. paul >

Re: [xwiki-users] [xwiki-devs] [VOTE] Move to Java 8 as minimal version for XWiki 8.0+

2016-02-09 Thread Thomas Mortagne
+1 On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 4:11 PM, vinc...@massol.net wrote: > Hi devs, > > I’d like to propose that we move to Java 8 as the minimal Java version > supported for XWiki 8.0+. > > The rationale is: > > * Java 7 is end of life since April 2015. > * It brings [Default > Methods|https://docs.oracle

Re: [xwiki-users] [xwiki-devs] [VOTE] Move to Java 8 as minimal version for XWiki 8.0+

2016-02-09 Thread Ecaterina Moraru (Valica)
+1 Thanks, Caty On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 5:11 PM, vinc...@massol.net wrote: > Hi devs, > > I’d like to propose that we move to Java 8 as the minimal Java version > supported for XWiki 8.0+. > > The rationale is: > > * Java 7 is end of life since April 2015. > * It brings [Default Methods| > https