Upgrading to Eclipse 2020-09 / requiring JDK 11

[Marcus Hirt]

Hi Mario,

You're quite right. I should have been more precise in my wording. 2020-09
is not the minimum, but the default. And if building with 2020-09 as the
platform, the resulting build will require JDK 11 to run.

If someone wants to build with 2020-06 or 2020-03, that will still be
possible for now. That said, 2020-09 should be the default, as there is
functionality there that we need, such as the chromium based embedded
browser without which the Flame Graph View will not work on Windows.

Requiring JDK 11 for the JMC application _code_ can wait for JMC 9.

Kind regards,
Marcus

On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 1:05 PM Mario Torre <neugens at redhat.com> wrote:

> 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
> >
>
>
> --
> Mario Torre
> Associate Manager, Software Engineering
> Red Hat GmbH <https://www.redhat.com>
> 9704 A60C B4BE A8B8 0F30  9205 5D7E 4952 3F65 7898
>
>