Aw: Proposal: Bump minimum JDK for JavaFX 24 to JDK 22

2024-10-14 Thread Marius Hanl
don't understand the LTS concept at all or are unwilling to do so. Even if it makes my life more difficult for some projects.   So a +1 from me.   -- Marius   Gesendet: Mittwoch, 02. Oktober 2024 um 16:45 Uhr Von: "Kevin Rushforth" An: "openjfx-dev" Betreff: Proposal:

Re: [External] : Re: Proposal: Bump minimum JDK for JavaFX 24 to JDK 22

2024-10-08 Thread Kevin Rushforth
I just took the PR out of Draft, so it is ready for review. In case anyone is interested, I refer you to the recently-published Informational JEP 14: The Tip & Tail Model of Library Development [1], which outlines some of the thinking behind this. -- Kevin [1] https://openjdk.org/jeps/14 O

Re: [External] : Re: Proposal: Bump minimum JDK for JavaFX 24 to JDK 22

2024-10-02 Thread Kevin Rushforth
It's more an evolving realization that there is little benefit to the OpenJFX community to force JavaFX to be tied to an LTS release of the JDK, and a cost to doing so (both in additional testing, opportunity cost of using new features, etc). LTS releases are about stability and support; if an

Re: Proposal: Bump minimum JDK for JavaFX 24 to JDK 22

2024-10-02 Thread Nir Lisker
I was advocated to bump to JDK 22 last year, with FFM as a main reason to replace sun.misc.Unsafe [1], so of course I endorse this. The main rebuttal was that companies prefer to use LTS versions (although any distributor can declare any version as LTS), so I wonder if these considerations still t

Proposal: Bump minimum JDK for JavaFX 24 to JDK 22

2024-10-02 Thread Kevin Rushforth
All, Even though we build JavaFX 24 binaries with JDK 22 (and soon will build with JDK 23) as the boot JDK, the latest version of JavaFX still runs with JDK 21, although it isn't tested with older JDK versions. In order for JavaFX to be able to use newer JDK features, such as FFM (Panama), we