Re: [mylyn-docs-dev] Java 8 and Eclipse 3.x support

[Sam Davis <sam.davis@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

All Mylyn bundles have been updated to require Java 8, and all build jobs should now be running with Java 8. This means that it is no longer possible to launch Mylyn using a target platform based on Eclipse 3.8 or older, nor to install Mylyn into Eclipse 3.8 or older. On the positive side, there are a bunch of great new language features in Java 8 that we can now start using.

Cheers,

Sam

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Sam Davis
Software Engineer, Tasktop Dev
Committer, Eclipse Mylyn
http://tasktop.com

On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 1:21 PM, Sam Davis <sam.davis@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi,

I would like to update all Mylyn bundles to require Java 8 so that we can take advantage of the many new language features. Note that some parts of Eclipse already require Java 8. A side-effect of this change is that it would no longer be possible to use Mylyn with Eclipse 3.8 and older.

I would like to move the following projects to Java 8 for the Neon release in June (Mylyn 3.20):

* Mylyn
* Mylyn Builds
* Mylyn Commons
* Mylyn Context
* Mylyn Docs
* Mylyn Incubator
* Mylyn Reviews
* Mylyn Tasks
* Mylyn Versions

Please comment on the bug [1] if you have any concerns.

Thanks,

Sam

[1] 487770: update Mylyn bundles to require Java 8
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=487770