[11] Review request: 8200446: Update minimum boot JDK to 10

[Nir Lisker]

>
> Once this is done, we can start using JDK 10 features, such as 'var' for
> local variables (although please don't take this as a license to use 'var'
> gratuitously).


I'll remind that there's a style guide at
http://openjdk.java.net/projects/amber/LVTIstyle.html.

- Nir

On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 4:33 PM, Kevin Rushforth <kevin.rushforth at oracle.com
> wrote:

> Please review the following to bump the minimum boot JDK required for
> JavaFX builds to JDK 10. Note that the review will be done on github, but
> it is OK to reply to this thread with comments if you don't have a github
> account.
>
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8200446
> https://github.com/javafxports/openjdk-jfx/pull/61
>
> This also bumps the class file format to that of JDK 10. I note that we
> have been using JDK 10 to build the openjfx-11 builds for several months,
> and now that we've upgraded to gradle 4.8 we are ready to make JDK 10 the
> minimum.
>
> Once this is done, we can start using JDK 10 features, such as 'var' for
> local variables (although please don't take this as a license to use 'var'
> gratuitously).
>
> Thanks.
>
> -- Kevin
>
>