[epp-dev] Moving a package to Java 11 as requirement

[Mickael Istria <mistria@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

Today I've faced a couple of issues where Java 8 is noticeable less productive that Java 11 and some of its sugar. I'm willing to start adopting Java 11 in some projects to write better code faster.

The first "safe" example that comes to my mind is Corrosion.

Let's imagine that a future (post-2020-03) release of Corrosion wants to switch to Java 11 as BREE, would it be fine for EPP to have the Rust package requiring Java 11 while others require Java 8? If not, what would be the possible alternatives that wouldn't block Corrosion from adopting Java 11?

Also, I'm curious, are there any other package maintainers out there who are eager to move to a newer Java as BREE?

Cheers,

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Mickael Istria

Eclipse IDE developer, for Red Hat Developers