My reason for Java 17 is based on the pain once we had to use Java 11 to uncover that so many things were broken and almost no one tested that it literally costed me more than a month to get things in working order. At that point I made up my mind that the burden shouldn't be mine only :) . What would be a good channel to get some poll on the topic and decide based on it for now? Although any delay longer than till end of year would put us in same bad situation with Java 17 as with Java 11 back then IMHO.
Probably yes, but that's all a bit syntactic sugar to me compared to the
burden we put on consumers of tycho.
The real pitfalls are currently
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=578054
and I would rather invest time there than some of these fancy Java 17
stuff (you can call me oldshcol in that regard) and I really don't want
to loose users that currently help us test new version regular just
because they are mad about being forced to upgrade their builds just for
a little convince...
Am 07.01.22 um 11:54 schrieb Mickael Istria:
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 7, 2022 at 11:48 AM Christoph Läubrich
> <laeubi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:laeubi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
> Requiring build systems to update their java version often brings some
> rumor and I currently do not see we can take advantage of any Java 17
> feature in tycho that would justify that given that people can always
> run Tycho with Java 17, 18, ... whatever they like already.
>
>
> Things like Switch expressions, records, text blocks... and many other
> features are IMO very interesting in term of productivity and code
> quality and then long term maintenance cost, and I personally won't wait
> long before using them everywhere possible, including Tycho!
>
> _______________________________________________
> tycho-dev mailing list
> tycho-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
> To unsubscribe from this list, visit https://www.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/tycho-dev
_______________________________________________
tycho-dev mailing list
tycho-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
To unsubscribe from this list, visit https://www.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/tycho-dev
--
Aleksandar Kurtakov
Red Hat Eclipse Team
