Re: [eclipse-pmc] [jdt-dev] Java 11 runtime support in ecj in 4.28

[Aleksandar Kurtakov <akurtako@xxxxxxxxxx>]

PMC vote has concluded:

+1 McQ, Lars, Alex, Tom (Tom has recommendation to do it for 2023-09)

- 1 Jay

Andrey, as per this vote. You have a GO from the PMC side to go for this update.

On Thu, Mar 23, 2023 at 9:53 PM Andrey Loskutov <loskutov@xxxxxx> wrote:

Hi PMC, 

we have a lovely discussion on https://github.com/eclipse-jdt/eclipse.jdt.core/issues/886 regarding ecj starting to require Java 17 runtime and dropping Java 11 runtime support in 4.28.

Would be nice if we could have PMC resolution/decision on this question soon.

Short summary of the problem:

Eclipse 4.28 is going to support Java 17 runtime only (see https://github.com/eclipse-platform/eclipse.platform.releng/issues/200).

ECJ, as standalone compiler library, could in theory still stay and support execution on Java 11.

The controversial proposal that requires resolution is: ECJ released with 4.28 would also require at least Java 17 for execution.

Note: Compilation *targets* are not affected by that, ecj will still support compilation down to Java 8 JLS.

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Andrey Loskutov

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Aleksandar Kurtakov

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