Hi, Markku Korkeala <markku.korke...@iki.fi> writes:
> On Tue, Apr 16, 2024 at 10:37:30PM +0200, Julien Lepiller wrote: >> Currently, most java packages use the implicit jdk from the build >> system (ant- or maven-build-system), which is… icedtea@8. We still >> have quite a lot of old packages that don't build with openjdk9, so >> I'm not sure when we can update the default jdk… > > Hi, > > is there effort to update the default jdk at some point? I could help with > it. I'm not familiar with the guix java build systems, but have long > experience as a Java developer. I also maintain few java packages in Fedora > and saw the transition to to jdk11 [1], jdk17 [2] and now to jdk21 [3]. The > pages have documented common issues and workarounds, which might help. I'm not aware of such effort in Guix currently, so feel free to spearhead it! It'd be beneficial, although I supposed difficult to achieve due to bootstrap reasons, perhaps. -- Thanks, Maxim
