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

[Scott Palmer]

Consider using the gradle wrapper.  That should eliminate issues with Linux
distributions not having the right version of Gradle or any devs needing to
worry about being on the "official" version. Those wanting to test with
more recent version will still be able to do so.
http://www.gradle.org/docs/current/userguide/gradle_wrapper.html

Scott


On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 1:31 PM, Kevin Rushforth <kevin.rushforth at oracle.com
> wrote:

> Hi Mario,
>
> I am usually reluctant to have build tools changes in an update release,
> too, so we will certainly take your concern very seriously.
>
> As for JavaFX 8 entering maintenance mode, we expect to do most of our
> work over the next few months in 8u20 (rather than 9), since we are
> deferring a lot of bugs out of 8. Any new features will be done in 9, but
> probably not until after 8u20 is in very good shape.
>
>
> -- Kevin
>
>
> Mario Torre wrote:
>
>> 2013/11/20 Kevin Rushforth <kevin.rushforth at oracle.com <mailto:
>> kevin.rushforth at oracle.com>>
>>
>>
>>     We might do an upgrade during some JDK 8u release (e.g., 8u20 or
>>     8u40), but there would need to be a good reason to do so.
>>
>>
>> Hmmm, I really hope this won't be done, it would likely prevent to
>> release newer JavaFX (meaning more work to backport fixes).
>>
>> Will JavaFX 8 enter maintainance mode? I was of the idea that once
>> OpenJFX8 is released for JDK8 then all the development would go into *JFX9
>> for *JDK9 (with only bug fixing and perhaps stabilisation fixes), no?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Mario
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