HEADS-UP: switching to gradle 2.8 for FX 9 builds

[Kevin Rushforth]

And of course right after I sent this out, I see that gradle 2.9 was 
released today.

If testing looks good, we might switch to 2.9 instead.

-- Kevin


Kevin Rushforth wrote:
> As a heads-up, we will be switching FX 9 production builds to using 
> gradle 2.8 for building in the near future. See:
>
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8090171
>
> Very soon -- later this week if all goes well -- we will "flip the 
> switch" to make 2.8 the default for building the FX jake bits (for 
> Jigsaw). Not too long after that we will make 2.8 the default for 9-dev.
>
> Here is a rough timeline that we are considering:
>
> 11/20 - switch 9-jake nightly builds to gradle 2.8
> 12/4 - switch 9-dev nightly builds to gradle 2.8
> 12/7 - switch 9 master builds to gradle 2.8
> 12/11 - push change to make 2.8 the minimum supported version
>
> All developers will need to upgrade to gradle 2.8 before the 12/11 
> date. Note that you don't need to wait that long. I've been using 
> gradle 2.8 for over a week on all of my machines (and earlier gradle 
> 2.X versions for longer).
>
> Note that FX 8u will continue to build with gradle 1.8, although it is 
> buildable with gradle 2.X for developers.
>
> -- Kevin
>