Re: Java 21 for jEdit ?

The license issue shouldn't be hard to resolve, GPL 3 would allow Apache
licensed code to be mixed in. We just need some new code with a GPL 3
license committed to the project, then the rest is automatic.

On Wed, Oct 4, 2023 at 2:10 PM Matthieu Casanova <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hey,
> are you able to reproduce it today ?
> I tried with a macro
>
> sb.bsh containing
>
> StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
> sb.append("test");
> System.out.println(sb.toString());
>
> I run it with Java 17.0.8.1 (Adoptium) and it works.
> I tried to recompile jEdit with that same JDK and ran jEdit and the test
> and it also worked.
> Did I miss something or maybe someone fixed the bug already?
>
> As Dale told it seems we will not be able to upgrade Beanshell because of
> their licence change so we have the choice to find another alternative that
> would be compatible with GPL (I don't know any), otherwise we might try to
> solve the problem ourselves in our version of Beanshell.
>
> --
>   Matthieu Casanova
>   [email protected]
>
>
> Mer 04 oct 2023, à 22:03, Dale Anson a écrit :
>
> I believe it's in the same place it was last year. It isn't hard to
> upgrade the integrated beanshell to a newer, java 17+ compatible version,
> but there is still the GPL vs Apache license issue which hasn't been worked
> out.
>
> On Wed, Oct 4, 2023 at 1:40 PM Robert Schwenn <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
>
> do You have in mind that there's a issue with integrated beanshell (
> https://sourceforge.net/p/jedit/bugs/4118/) not being compatible with
> java 17 (and presumably later)? Or is it fixed already (or a mistake)?
>
> Robert
>
>
>
> Am 02.10.2023 um 23:27 schrieb Matthieu Casanova:
>
> Hey,
> we missed java 17 and are still on java 11. Java 21 arrived and it is LTS,
> I think it would be nice that the next version of jEdit (after 5.7 release)
> would be java 21 which brings a lot of nice features especially virtual
> threads.
> Anyone against it ?
>
> Matthieu
>
>
> --
> -----------------------------------------------
> jEdit Developers' List
> [email protected]
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jedit-devel
>
>
> --
> -----------------------------------------------
> jEdit Developers' List
> [email protected]
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jedit-devel
>
>
>

-- 
-----------------------------------------------
jEdit Developers' List
[email protected]
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jedit-devel