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Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Kepler SR3 for Java 8?

Why do you see this as a major regression?

There's no problem beside that using < java7 as compile target when you
use JRE8 in the project.

Tom

On 27.03.14 08:38, Mickael Istria wrote:
> On 03/27/2014 08:32 AM, Mickael Istria wrote:
>> On 03/20/2014 03:50 PM, Konstantin Komissarchik wrote:
>>>
>>> I am wondering if we should do a limited SR release to pickup Java 8
>>> patches. As it stands, Eclipse users interested in Java 8 would have
>>> to hunt for and install at least two patches, which doesn’t paint
>>> Eclipse in a good light.
>>>
>> This bug https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-16902 makes that Java 8
>> support introduces something that will be felt as a major regression
>> for most users. So I'm -1 for making Java 8 support part of a
>> generally available SR3 until it contains this bug.
> Sorry, bad link, the bug is
> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=390889
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