Proposing to move JMC 9 to JDK 17.

[Brice Dutheil]

+1
Non binding

-- Brice

On Thu 27 Apr 2023 at 20:18 Miro Wengner <miro.wengner at gmail.com> wrote:

> +1
> Kind Regards
> Miro
>
> > On 27. Apr 2023, at 17:29, Marcus Hirt <marcus.hirt at datadoghq.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I propose that we move JMC 9 to use JDK 17 for compiling all parts of
> > JMC 9, including JMC core. The reason is that we need to move to Tycho
> > 3.0 to properly support working with the project in the newer versions
> > of Eclipse.
> >
> > I also propose to require JDK 17 for running all parts of JMC 9, to
> > simplify requirements, and to allow developers to use JDK 17 features
> > when developing JMC. We already require JDK 17 to run the RCP
> > application build of JMC, since newer versions of the Eclipse platform
> > require JDK 17 to run.
> >
> > Note that it will still be possible to connect to, read and process
> > JFR recordings from, and run the other tools  (e.g. JOverflow) on
> > processes running JDK 8+.
> >
> > Kind regards,
> > Marcus
>
-- 
Brice
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