Proposing to move JMC 9 to JDK 17.

[Marcus Hirt]

Goodie! Virag is working on a PR for the change.

Kind regards,
Marcus

On Fri, Apr 28, 2023 at 6:12 PM Langer, Christoph
<christoph.langer at sap.com> wrote:
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> Sounds fine and will make things less complicated. 😊
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> 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.
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> +1
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> Non binding
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> -- Brice
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> On Thu 27 Apr 2023 at 20:18 Miro Wengner <miro.wengner at gmail.com> wrote:
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> +1
> Kind Regards
> Miro
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> > On 27. Apr 2023, at 17:29, Marcus Hirt <marcus.hirt at datadoghq.com> wrote:
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> > Hi all,
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> > 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.
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> > 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.
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> > 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+.
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> > Kind regards,
> > Marcus
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> --
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> Brice