[jgit-dev] Move JGit to JavaSE-1.8?

["Andrey Loskutov" <loskutov@xxxxxx>]

Hi all,

Currently JGit is compiled against JavaSE-1.7 target and we also expect that Java 7 is the default runtime environment. 

I've just seen that there were some changes in Java 8 which makes some of our tests fail on Java 8, they can be fixed, but I wonder if we should move to Java 8 and set this as minimum execution environment for the next major JGit release? 

The reason for the move would be simple: save development costs for maintaining code and tests compatible with already obsoleted Java 7 release.

I've entered https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=500059 for discussion & to collect bugs blocking us to use Java 8 as a default target platform.

Kind regards,
Andrey Loskutov

http://google.com/+AndreyLoskutov