Upgrading to Eclipse 2020-09 / requiring JDK 11

Mario Torre neugens at redhat.com
Mon Sep 21 11:58:14 UTC 2020


On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 1:31 PM Marcus Hirt <marcus.hirt at datadoghq.com> wrote:
>
> 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.

Ah, that sounds better :)

I guess this is your https://github.com/openjdk/jmc/pull/111 then? I
just approved it.

Cheers,
Mario


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