Jochen, technically, you do not need the jdk 9, you can compile with jdk 8 and have a jar that contains the declaration of methods of the jdk 9 you want.
JRuby had worked that way when it was jdk 6 compatible but optionally uses the java.lang.invoke API. regards, Rémi On April 8, 2017 10:11:51 AM GMT+02:00, Jochen Theodorou <blackd...@gmx.org> wrote: >Hi all, > >so if we want to be serious about JDK9 support and not life with a >thousands of warnings displayed whenever you try to execute a Groovy >program or test (44k+ in our build for example)... then we will need >JDK9 specific code. > >That means we will have to change our build to support optional JDK9 >code, like we did in the past several times already. That also means a >full build will require JDK9 a lower JDK will not make a full build >then. And once Cedric fixed JDK9 support in gradle... ahem... poor guy. > >Anyway, I would like to hear thoughts about this from the others. > > >And then there is the matter of going to JDK8 master is supposed to be >Groovy 3 did we say we want to go to JDK8 here? I think that would be >nice... and of course if JDK8 is the minimum could start thinking about > >having indy enabled by default. Here too I would to hear what people >think > >bye Jochen -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
