[ovirt-devel] Requiring Java 8 during runtime

[Tal Nisan]

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

On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 10:36 AM, Allon Mureinik <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>
> 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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