This is a chicken and egg problem.
Dalibor Topic (one of the openjdk leads) asked me if we could do some testing with Java8 so they have better feedback about the maturity. He (and me as well) like to prevent such disasters like it happened with the last java7 upgrade where a few core projects like lucene didn't work anymore. What is the problem with installing openjdk-8-preview as JDK on at least our ubuntu boxes? It should of course clearly get marked as 'preview'. But I think it would also be of great help for a few ASF projects to detect any limitations and problems very early. If we don't detect them yet, then we probably have to deal with them in production later. LieGrue, strub >________________________________ > From: Jake Farrell <jfarr...@apache.org> >To: "builds@apache.org" <builds@apache.org>; Mark Struberg <strub...@yahoo.de> >Sent: Monday, 11 November 2013, 18:01 >Subject: Re: JDK-8 developer preview for our Jenkins? > > > >For openjdk we currently only have in use the default packages provided from >ubuntu, I would prefer not to install preview versions on the slaves if >possible. Is there an immediate need for this or can it wait till openjdk-8 is >GA? > > >-Jake > > > >On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 10:44 AM, Mark Struberg <strub...@yahoo.de> wrote: > >Hi folks! >> >>I'm interested in testing many of my projects with the JDK-8 developer >>preview. >>Is there an easy way to install openjdk8 on any of the jenkins boxes? >> >>txs and LieGrue, >>strub > > >
