On 9 Feb 2016 at 18:21:27, Paul Libbrecht (p...@hoplahup.net(mailto:p...@hoplahup.net)) wrote:
> Vincent, > > can you state which minimum MacOSX, Ubuntu, and Windows version this means? > I know 10.6 is out and I've been challenged for this since XWiki moved > to Java7 already but that's past (my solution was, then, to not upgrade > my wiki). > It'd be interesting to know the coming limitations. Just found this: http://java.com/en/download/help/sysreq.xml Thanks -Vincent > paul > > > vinc...@massol.net > > 9 February 2016 at 16:11 > > Hi devs, > > > > I’d like to propose that we move to Java 8 as the minimal Java version > > supported for XWiki 8.0+. > > > > The rationale is: > > > > * Java 7 is end of life since April 2015. > > * It brings [Default > > Methods|https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/IandI/defaultmethods.html] > > which would make retro compatibility a lot easier for us (it's very > > hard to add new features to existing API right now). > > * Required for: > > ** Infinispan 8 > > ** JGroups 4 > > ** Jetty 9.3+ seems to require Java 8 (or maybe it's just optimized > > for it, http://download.eclipse.org/jetty/ is not crystal clear about > > what "Java 8+" means exactly) > > > > Nice to have > > * Lambda Expressions > > * Repeating Annotations which would probably allow us to use several > > times \@Named instead of \@Component(hints=\{"hint1", "hint2"\}) for > > example > > * New date/time APIs (pretty much what is in Joda Time). We should > > refactor our $datetool velocity tool to make the java.time api > > available from velocity > > * more… > > > > See http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XCOMMONS-878 > > > > Here’s my +1 and my +1 to start requiring Java 8 for 8.0M2. > > > > Thanks > > -Vincent > > > > _______________________________________________ > > devs mailing list > > d...@xwiki.org > > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > d...@xwiki.org > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs _______________________________________________ users mailing list users@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
