From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: Using openjdk9 as the default JDK Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2019 10:46:37 +0100 Message-ID: <871s3lwt4y.fsf@elephly.net> 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]:46034) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h16f7-0004VO-6A for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Mar 2019 04:47:02 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h16f6-0002DX-Be for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Mar 2019 04:47:01 -0500 Received: from sender-of-o51.zoho.com ([135.84.80.216]:21064) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h16f5-00029C-Jr for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Mar 2019 04:47:00 -0500 In-reply-to: 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: =?utf-8?Q?G=C3=A1bor?= Boskovits Cc: Guix-devel Hi G=C3=A1bor, >> 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_hi= story Good point. Let=E2=80=99s use openjdk11 then. --=20 Ricardo