Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] core.jobs dependency on Java 8

[Ralf Sternberg <rsternberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Just for your information, in today's RAP meeting we agreed to

- keep RAP 3.1 in the Neon simultaneous release despite the
core.databinding dependencies on Java 8
- keep the RAP 3.1 bundles Java 7 compatible
- provide an alternative target platform based on Eclipse Mars for Java 7 users.

With this policy, the core.jobs BREE would not be an issue for RAP anymore.

Thanks to all for your feedback and cooperation.

Regards,
Ralf


On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 5:23 PM, Daniel Megert <daniel_megert@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In our PMC call today [1] we decided to move 'org.eclipse.core.jobs' back to
> JavaSE-1.7.
>
> [1] https://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse/PMC#Meeting_Minutes
>
> Dani
>
>
>
> From:        Ralf Sternberg <rsternberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To:        Cross project issues <cross-project-issues-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date:        08.12.2015 00:21
> Subject:        Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] core.jobs dependency on Java
> 8
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> Hi John,
>
> thanks for your support.
>
>> One question for you Ralf, is whether this is the only bundle RAP requires
>> that is blocking you in this way? I thought there were a number of other
>> platform bundles already requiring Java 8 as well.
>
> Unfortunately, as Ivan reported already, there are three more
> eclipse.core.databinding bundles now requiring Java 8 that I was not
> aware of. All other dependencies of RAP (equinox, eclipse.core,
> javax.servlet, javax.xml, icu) are still on <= 1.7.
>
> As Lars pointed out in bug 483803, the planned support for the new
> Date and Time API would require Java 8, so the core.databinding
> bundles should remain on Java 8. I'd think that the databinding
> bundles are less critical for us as databinding is an optional feature
> and the bundles could probably easily be replaced by their Mars
> versions in a Java 7 deployment.
>
> Also thanks to Thomas and Konstantin for the pointers to Application
> Servers and Java 8. We'll discuss again if moving to Java 8 could
> already be an option for RAP 3.1.
>
> Regards,
> Ralf
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