[ovirt-devel] Requiring Java 8 during runtime

[Juan Hernández]

On 10/27/2015 04:04 PM, Tal Nisan wrote:
> I agree with Allon, there's no reason to have different version
> throughout the modules (again, not including GWT for obvious reasons),
> there is practically no harm I can think of in raising the version for
> all modules at once

I have updated the patch to raise the level in all the projects except
the ones that require Java 7 because of GWT:

  core: Use Java 8 as source and target
  https://gerrit.ovirt.org/46288

Please review.

> 
> On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 10:36 AM, Allon Mureinik <amureini at redhat.com
> <mailto:amureini at redhat.com>> wrote:
> 
>     I think it's a really bad practice to have different modules in the
>     same project with different language versions.
> 
>     For GWT it seems to be required, but for the rest of the backend, I
>     think we should have one patch that moves the entire project in one go.
>     We can have the various maintainers ack it to show their consent.
> 
>     On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 1:17 PM, Juan Hernández <jhernand at redhat.com
>     <mailto:jhernand at redhat.com>> wrote:
> 
>         On 10/26/2015 12:05 PM, Martin Mucha wrote:
>         > not strictly related question: are we going to raise language level as well? So we can start using JDK8 features like lambdas etc?
>         >
>         > M.
>         >
> 
>         Shortly after merging that patch I'll merge another one to raise the
>         language level in the RESTAPI:
> 
>           restapi: Use Java 8 as source and target
>           https://gerrit.ovirt.org/46288
> 
>         Doing the same in other components is up to their maintainers. I
>         think
>         that should be done everywhere, except where the use of GWT doesn't
>         allow to do it.
> 
>         > ----- Original Message -----
>         >> Hello,
>         >>
>         >> As you probably know oVirt Engine 4 will use WildFly 10, and that
>         >> requires Java 8. The version of WildFly that we currently use
>         is 8.2.1,
>         >> and it can work with both Java 7 and Java 8. In order to ease the
>         >> transition I'm about to merge the following patch, that will
>         require
>         >> Java 8 during runtime:
>         >>
>         >>   core: Require Java 8 during runtime
>         >>   https://gerrit.ovirt.org/46872
>         >>
>         >> The implication of this for you is that you must make sure
>         that you have
>         >> Java 8 installed in the machine where you run your the
>         engine. Fedora 22
>         >> only supports Java 8, so that isn't a problem. EL6 supports
>         both Java 7
>         >> and Java 8, so make sure that you have Java 8 installed:
>         >>
>         >>   yum -y install java-1.8.0-openjdk-devel
>         >>
>         >> If you have objections please speak now, otherwise I will
>         merge the
>         >> patch tomorrow.
>         >>
>         >> Regards,
>         >> Juan Hernandez
>         >>
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