[Building Sakai] Requiring JDK 7 for building/running Sakai 11?

[Matthew Buckett]

On 21 February 2014 13:56, Charles Severance <csev at umich.edu> wrote:

> I think that they *key* question is what we decide to focus our Sakai-10
> QA efforts on (7 or 8).
>
> I think that we should absolutely *not* try to go to J8 for S-10 QA.  In a
> sense since most of us have been coding and dev testing and running
> production of bits of trunk under J7 for over a year - it would be kind of
> risky to switch to J8 for S-10 QA and then recommend J8 for S-10 production.
>

I agree that the focus of the QA for S-10 should be Java 7 (especially as
JDK 8 isn't released and lots of older distros come with JDK 7, however if
the changes to support JDK 8 aren't too large I think it would be useful if
S-10 ran/built on JDK 8 if people want to. At the moment S-10 is still
supporting JDK 6.


> Having S-11 will be on J8 is a great idea. We could switch all the trunk
> nightlys to J8 as soon as S-10 is out the door to hold out feet to the fire
> and than let folks use J8-isms which will force us all to develop and test
> in J8.
>
> But I hope folks are not talking about J8 for S-10.
>

Not as the default, but I as an option.

-- 
  Matthew Buckett, VLE Developer, IT Services, University of Oxford
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