[sakai-core-team] Fwd: [Building Sakai] Java 8

[Sam Ottenhoff]

I also asked Aaron.  I would give him the weekend and then if no response,
let's fork and move to Github.

On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 12:06 PM, Kirschner, Beth <bkirschn at umich.edu>
wrote:

> I believe I have Sakai building & running with Java 8 -- the only
> outstanding issue is reflectutils. I've attached a patch to Aaron's google
> svn repo, and also sent him an email to his gmail address, but haven't
> heard anything back. I wonder if we should move this dependency into
> github?
>
> Thoughts?
> - Beth
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> *From: *Matthew Jones <matthew at longsight.com>
> *Subject: **Re: [Building Sakai] Java 8*
> *Date: *February 5, 2015 9:35:05 AM EST
> *To: *"Kirschner, Beth" <bkirschn at umich.edu>
> *Cc: *sakai-dev <sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org>
>
> It compiles with Java 8 (since it still creates Java 7 jars) but it
> currently will not run. One of the known problems that has to be fixed is
> in the reflectutils library that is used in a number of tools. Some of the
> details are on that ticket.
>
> https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-26078
>
> There may be more issues found once people start running on Java 8.
>
> I personally haven't had any time to look at that but anyone is free to
> and I could submit a patch to reflectutils if they do before me. I know it
> will be fixed before 11, but I'd expect it would be fixed before the next
> 10.x release (10.5) in a few months.
>
> On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 8:49 AM, Kirschner, Beth <bkirschn at umich.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> Has anyone tried upgrading to Java 8 with Sakai 10? Just wondering if
>> anyone's found any roadblocks. Java 7 will receive no more (public) updates
>> after April 2015.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> - Beth
>>
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