[eclipse-dev] We will soon be removing old, non-released versions of JDT

[David M Williams <david_williams@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Currently scheduled for Friday, 6/6, Noon,
Eastern time. 

Sorry for the short notice, but if anyone
would like to review, please see bug 436481. 
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=436481

But otherwise, be sure to move up to
use the "final Luna Release version" by then, if you have been
using some previous milestone version. 

The "final" Luna version is
3.10.0.v20140603-1928.

(Say "final" in quotes ...
just because there is some rare chance that a "blocking problem"
will be found and we'll have to produce yet another final version.)

I know some projects for Luna may already
have fixed all their bugs, say in RC1, or RC2, and will be wondering if
they should recompile with final version. 
Chances are, it would make no difference
to your byte codes (unless you use Java 8 BREE), since all recent changes
were concerned with Java 8 constructs ... but ... if you wanted to be completely
safe, it wouldn't hurt to recompile with final version. If you want to
check Git history yourself, so see if you might be effected, you could
study the log at 
http://git.eclipse.org/c/jdt/eclipse.jdt.core.git/log/.


We do want to "get rid of the old"
for two reasons, though ... one is to make sure teams do "move up"
to final version for their final builds (if they are still building, and
have been using any of the milestone versions of the compiler) and second
reason, is we want to make sure the JDT Team is not burdened with bogus
bugs about a problem with such and such version of compiler, when in fact
it was not even a released version and may already be fixed. 

If anyone has any "special requests"
(such as they need a particular version left in "staging" for
a little longer, for some reason ... maybe your releng guy is on vacation
till Monday :) ... then please comment in bug 436481 with the details.


And, if not obvious, if anyone sees
any issues with the lists and tabulations I've put in bug 436481, feel
free to comment in that bug. 

Thanks,