From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?UTF-8?Q?G=C3=A1bor_Boskovits?= Subject: Re: Using openjdk9 as the default JDK Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2019 10:35:57 +0100 Message-ID: References: <874l8hwuwk.fsf@elephly.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:43949) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h16Ue-000219-OF for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Mar 2019 04:36:13 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h16Uc-0002P2-MX for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Mar 2019 04:36:12 -0500 Received: from mail-ed1-x52c.google.com ([2a00:1450:4864:20::52c]:41571) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h16Uc-0002Np-DI for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Mar 2019 04:36:10 -0500 Received: by mail-ed1-x52c.google.com with SMTP id x7so6644978eds.8 for ; Tue, 05 Mar 2019 01:36:10 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <874l8hwuwk.fsf@elephly.net> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Ricardo Wurmus Cc: Guix-devel Hello Ricardo, Ricardo Wurmus ezt =C3=ADrta (id=C5=91pont: 2019. m=C3= =A1rc. 5., K, 10:09): > > Hi Guix, > > there are a few packages now that require Java 9, such as > java-eclipse-jdt-compiler-apt (that I=E2=80=99m currently packaging). > > We should aim to use openjdk9 as the default JDK. > > What do you think? > Do you think that aiming for openjdk11 directly is too much? 9 is not supported, but 11 will be supported until 2026. For further information see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_version_hist= ory > -- > Ricardo > > Best regards, g_bor