HEADS UP: Switched to 1.8 source/target in build (in graphics repository).

[Tom Schindl]

Hi Steve,

[...]
> In the case of Eclipse, I have built the JDK8 Beta JDT plugins and am
> self hosting with them.  I am in the process of evaluating whether they
> will be sufficient.  It is also possible to run Eclipse using the patch
> and put both JDK7 and JDK8 on the build path (JDK7 first).  This will
> allow you to see JDK7 classes first to avoid changes to the base
> libraries.  At runtime, you should run against JDK8.  Neither of these
> solutions is great so we will have to wait and see.
>

Ok - keep me updated on this. IIRC the lambda stuff currently does NOT 
produce any bytecode (last time i checked it simply wrote null intead of 
the invoke dynamic).

If this has changed in the meantime this is good news. So report back 
your findings I could make a JDT_Beta download available from efxclipse.org.


It might make sense to host them in an extra branch instead of a JIRA, 
not? I think we should setup a bitbucket repo where we attach this (and 
patches who will follow) keep stuff compiling on JDK7 (see current 
RoboVM-Thread which does NOT support invoke dynamic).

Danno could we do it in your repo?

Tom