Upgrading to Eclipse 2020-09 / requiring JDK 11

[Mario Torre]

I think we should not require 11.

If we do, it means we can't support older Eclipse, I believe at this
stage the minimum version of Eclipse for JMC is still Photon? While I
recognise this is old at this point, if we bump to 2020-09 to be the
minimum supported we're stuck on getting the latest in every
distribution, which means everyone will need to have a JDK 11 to run
JMC, which isn't really an attractive option.

Perhaps this is something we can do with JMC 9 instead?

Cheers,
Mario

On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 5:47 PM Marcus Hirt <marcus.hirt at datadoghq.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I propose that we adopt the latest Eclipse platform (2020-09 / 4.17). Since
> 2020-09 requires JDK 11, I therefore also propose requiring JDK 11 to run
> the RCP application.
>
> Please let me know your thoughts!
>
> Kind regards,
> Marcus
>


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