Re: Building JAMES

Thanks for the clarification. That will push me in the right direction.

If I ever get it built someday, then I’ll try to remember to submit a PR to mention the version requirement somewhere in the docs.

I’ll just concentrate on the pre-built for now version then.

Cheers,
=David
On Apr 27, 2020 15:44 +0900, Matthieu Baechler <[email protected]>, wrote:
> On Mon, 2020-04-27 at 15:32 +0900, David Leangen (Apache) wrote:
> > Thank you, Rene.
> >
> > Is that a hard requirement? If so, then I will have to wait until we
> > update to Java 11 (which is not scheduled at this time), so I’ll
> > likely have to abandon for now.
> >
> > Shouldn’t it be possible to compile in Java 8, though? This page
> > states that JRE8 is the requirement:
> >
> > —> https://james.apache.org/server/quick-start.html
>
> This guide is about deploying an already-compile James server.
>
> Up to James 3.5 (which has a pending release), you could run with Java
> 8 JRE.
>
> Starting with James 3.6, you'll need Java 11.
>
> What you are trying to do is to compile it yourself, the requirements
> are differents.
>
> For some times now (probably 3.4) we use Java 11 compiler but target
> Java 8.
>
> Cheers,
>
> -- Matthieu Baechler
>
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