HEADS-UP: switching to gradle 1.8 for next week's build

[Kevin Rushforth]

Hi Mario,

We don't upgrade our build environment lightly or frequently, and this 
will be the last such upgrade for FX 8, since we are hitting rampdown 
phase 2 in less than two weeks.

Ordinarily, you should expect to receive more notice for these sort of 
changes, and they should be done as part of a milestone build or similar.

-- Kevin


Mario Torre wrote:
>
> 2013/11/20 Kevin Rushforth <kevin.rushforth at oracle.com 
> <mailto:kevin.rushforth at oracle.com>>
>
>     All,
>
>     Primarily to fix https://javafx-jira.kenai.com/browse/RT-34171 we
>     are upgrading our build environment for JavaFX 8 from gradle 1.4
>     to gradle 1.8. This will be done prior to next week's build for
>     b118. I've been running gradle 1.8 for almost two weeks with no
>     issues, and I know other have as well. We are doing final testing
>     of the b117 bundles (a build of the b117 sources using gradle-1.8
>     will be compared with the gradle-1.4-built production).
>
>     It will continue to be buildable with gradle 1.4 unless / until
>     someone pushes a change requiring 1.8, but all developers are
>     encouraged to upgrade to gradle 1.8 at their earliest convenient.
>
>     Let me know if you have any questions or concerns.
>
>     -- Kevin
>
>
>
> Hi Kevin,
>
> Are you planning to upgrade the build often? If not, what are the 
> plans and schedule for such updates?
>
> It is a real problem for Linux distribution to have a constantly 
> moving build tool, making packaging of JavaFX next to impossible.
>
> Cheers,
> Mario
>
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