On 24.01.2017 15:51, Cédric Champeau wrote:
The main problem is parrot is that it requires Java 8, and 2.5 is planned to support 1.7. And bundling such a core thing as an experimental, optional module is a no-go for me (imagine the bug reports...). We could have a 2.9 release (or something similar) with Parrot sooner, though. (as a side note, any release of Groovy that would require Java 8 would be a no-go for Gradle in short term, be it 2.x or 3.x)
you misunderstand one essential part here. The parrot module would require java8, building Groovy would require Java8, executing Groovy would not require Java8 as long as parrot is not used. We have often parts of Groovy that require a higher version than the minimum one. At a time we required java5, but had a module for java6. Same for java7. Had we go with some proposals we would also have a java8 part while still requiring java7 as minimal version for Groovy.
bye Jochen
