Proposing to move JMC 9 to JDK 17.

[Langer, Christoph]

Sounds fine and will make things less complicated. 😊

From: jmc-dev <jmc-dev-retn at openjdk.org> On Behalf Of Brice Dutheil
Sent: Freitag, 28. April 2023 09:11
To: Miro Wengner <miro.wengner at gmail.com>
Cc: Marcus Hirt <marcus.hirt at datadoghq.com>; jmc-dev at openjdk.java.net
Subject: Re: Proposing to move JMC 9 to JDK 17.

+1
Non binding

-- Brice

On Thu 27 Apr 2023 at 20:18 Miro Wengner <miro.wengner at gmail.com<mailto:miro.wengner at gmail.com>> wrote:
+1
Kind Regards
Miro

> On 27. Apr 2023, at 17:29, Marcus Hirt <marcus.hirt at datadoghq.com<mailto: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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