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Subject:    Re: [ jEdit-devel ] Ant 1.9 is now required?
From:       Dale Anson <dale () daleanson ! com>
Date:       2017-03-27 0:36:58
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Thanks! I don't have any problem with the changes, I guess I wasn't paying
attention and didn't realize they were in the 5.4 release. I've been
running Java 8 for quite a while and upgraded my Ant to 1.10.1 today.

On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 5:24 PM, Vampire <Vampire@jedit.org> wrote:

> Actually it was decided to drop the support for 2 years end-of-life Java =
7
> and depend on Java 8 now, making it also possible to use Java 8 language
> features in jEdit and plugins code.
>
> So yes, Java 8 is required now.
>
> This was also the cause for the needed upgrade of Ant, as the JDepend in
> Ant before 1.9 was not compatible with the new bytecodes that were
> introduced in Java 8.
>
> Regards,
> Bj=C3=B6rn
>
> Am 27.03.2017 00:28 schrieb "Dale Anson" <dale@daleanson.com>:
>
>> And along with that, is Java 1.8 really required, or is it just updating
>> things to the latest versions?
>>
>> On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 4:23 PM, Dale Anson <dale@daleanson.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Just curious, what is it in Ant 1.9 that makes it required to build
>>> jEdit?
>>>
>>> Dale
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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<div dir="ltr">Thanks! I don&#39;t have any problem with the changes, I guess I \
wasn&#39;t paying attention and didn&#39;t realize they were in the 5.4 release. \
I&#39;ve been running Java 8 for quite a while and upgraded my Ant to 1.10.1 \
today.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Mar 26, \
2017 at 5:24 PM, Vampire <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:Vampire@jedit.org" \
target="_blank">Vampire@jedit.org</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote \
class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc \
solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Actually it was decided to drop the support \
for 2 years end-of-life Java 7 and depend on Java 8 now, making it also possible to \
use Java 8 language features in jEdit and plugins code.  <div \
dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">So yes, Java 8 is required now.  </div><div \
dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">This was also the cause for the needed upgrade \
of Ant, as the JDepend in Ant before 1.9 was not compatible with the new bytecodes \
that were introduced in Java 8.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div \
dir="auto">Regards,</div><div dir="auto">Björn</div></div><div \
class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">Am 27.03.2017 \
00:28 schrieb &quot;Dale Anson&quot; &lt;<a href="mailto:dale@daleanson.com" \
target="_blank">dale@daleanson.com</a>&gt;:<br \
type="attribution"></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 \
.8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div \
dir="ltr">And along with that, is Java 1.8 really required, or is it just updating \
things to the latest versions?</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div \
class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 4:23 PM, Dale Anson <span \
dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:dale@daleanson.com" \
target="_blank">dale@daleanson.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote \
class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc \
solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Just curious, what is it in Ant 1.9 that makes \
it required to build jEdit?<span \
class="m_-2039837070217921781m_8599606429446135852HOEnZb"><font \
color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>Dale</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></font></span></div>
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