Re: [mdt-ocl.dev] Probable move to Java 7 classes for Eclipse OCL in Mar

[Adolfo Sanchez-Barbudo Herrera <adolfosbh@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Ed,

It sounds good. Good job.

Regards,
Adolfo.
On 02/04/2015 11:29, Ed Willink wrote:
> Hi
>
> I already posted on the forum. I also emailed a representative of each
> major OCL-using SimREl project directly.
>
>      Regards
>
>          Ed
>
> On 02/04/2015 10:51, Adolfo Sanchez-Barbudo Herrera wrote:
> > Hi Ed,
> >
> > I presume that developers should not have any inconvenience. Direct
> > consumers in Eclipse might be monitoring this list, but perhaps is
> > worthwhile to open the question in the forum as well. I mean, just
> > scout the reaction of the community in the open forum of forcing them
> > to use java7/java8 for further releases. Probably no opposition, but...
> >
> > Regards,
> > Adolfo.
> > On 02/04/2015 07:59, Ed Willink wrote:
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > Some of the Eclipse platform plugins moved to Java 7 classes for Mars M6
> > > and this is causing problems continuing to provide Java 5 (Classic
> > > Eclipse OCL) or Java 6 (Pivot Eclipse OCL) plugins. See [1].
> > >
> > > The simple solution is to just shift all Eclipse OCL plugins to Java 7
> > > classes.
> > >
> > > An alternative is to omit the 'tampered' *.pack.gz files for Mars, and
> > > re-introduce them after Mars when the Eclipse OCL build may move to
> > > Tycho from Buckminster.
> > >
> > > Does anyone have a use case for not moving to Java 7 and so removing all
> > > support for Java 5 and Java 6?
> > >
> > > (And while I'm asking, does anyone have a problem moving to Java 8 for
> > > Mars+1?)
> > >
> > >      Regards
> > >
> > >          Ed Willink
> > >
> > > [1] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=463131
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