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Re: [tycho-dev] Abandoning Java < 11 support for tycho-surefire-plugin?
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Hi Andreas,
do you think you can help Mickael in upgrading the surefire booter to
surefire 3.x but remain java 1.8 compat?
I think the most problematic is that none of us really using java 8
anymore and dependent libraries are also evolving...
Am 01.04.22 um 17:15 schrieb Andreas Sewe:
Hi,
I think currently the OSGi Booter Projekt also is Java 1.5 compliant I
think there where some concerns because then you can't run tests with
older JDKs but in general I think we can require J11 for tests as well.
for the record, I was someone who has voiced these concerns about a year
ago
(<https://github.com/eclipse/tycho/issues/70#issuecomment-820537233>)
and even supplied a pull request to ensure that tests in a forked JVM
could still be run with Java 8.
At least from our perspective, the use case (testing against old
versions of Eclipse which do not even run on Java 11 but that are still
used by our users) is still valid. Admittedly, we finally need not
support Luna any more, as our last users have move from that old beast
to Eclipse Neon, but progress (for lack of a better word ;-) is slow.
Thus, for us dropping the ability to run tests with Java 8 would mean
that we will have to stay with Tycho 2.7.0 for a while longer.
Just my 2 cents.
Best wishes,
Andreas
