Re: About recent commits to 2_1_X

With a release every 6 years, we could indeed adopt a more recent Java 
version :)
I could vote +1 to such a move, if all tests pass and stable blocks have 
been reported to work as before.

Should we ask to users@ ?

Regards,
Cédric

Le 21/02/2019 à 12:09, Nathaniel, Alfred a écrit :
> Minimum Java version is now 1.6.
> That's the version needed for POI 3.14.
> It also solves a (mainly academic) issue in the XSP block.
>
> Still the question whether we shouldn't go straight to 1.8.
> It's frustrating to develop and then fail the build on Jenkins.
> I doubt that anyone bothering to upgrade Cocoon wouldn't want to go to a more recent JDK.
>
> Cheers, Alfred.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cédric Damioli <[email protected]>
> Sent: Mittwoch, 20. Februar 2019 19:56
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [External Sender] Re: About recent commits to 2_1_X
>
> I'm a bit lost here :)
>
> After your recent commits, what is now the minimum Java version : 1.5,
> 1.6, 1.8 ?
>
> Cédric
>
>
> Le 19/02/2019 à 12:25, Nathaniel, Alfred a écrit :
>> Thanks, it was quite a long shot to develop on Java 8 and then Jenkins on 1.5.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Francesco Chicchiriccò <[email protected]>
>> Sent: Dienstag, 19. Februar 2019 12:10
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: [External Sender] Re: About recent commits to 2_1_X
>>
>> FYI I have just updated the job to run with JDK 1.6 (it used to be 1.5).
>>
>> Now it seems to be back working, cool!
>>
>> Regards.
>>
>> On 19/02/19 11:36, Nathaniel, Alfred wrote:
>>> Yes, that's me although I don't know this error came into being.
>>> Must be a time bomb set off by a deeper recompile.
>>> I'll put in a fix.
>>>
>>> Cheers, Alfred.
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Francesco Chicchiriccò <[email protected]>
>>> Sent: Dienstag, 19. Februar 2019 08:42
>>> To: [email protected]
>>> Subject: [External Sender] About recent commits to 2_1_X
>>>
>>> Hi guys,
>>> glad to see some activity raising again in the old roots for 2_1_X;
>>> please take care of what Jenkins says about that:
>>>
>>> https://builds.apache.org/view/A-D/view/Cocoon/job/Cocoon%202.1.X/
>>>
>>> Recent builds seem to fail due to error
>>>
>>> compile-core:
>>> Compiling 461 source files to
>>> /home/jenkins/jenkins-slave/workspace/Cocoon
>>> 2.1.X/BRANCH_2_1_X/build/cocoon/classes
>>> /home/jenkins/jenkins-slave/workspace/Cocoon
>>> 2.1.X/BRANCH_2_1_X/src/java/org/apache/cocoon/components/flow/javascript/fom/FOM_JavaScriptInterpreter.java:665:
>>> unreported exception org.apache.regexp.RESyntaxException; must be caught
>>> or declared to be thrown
>>>         REProgram encodingRE = new
>>> RECompiler().compile("^.*encoding\\s*=\\s*([^\\s]*)");
>>>                                                        ^
>>> Note: Some input files use or override a deprecated API.
>>> Note: Recompile with -Xlint:deprecation for details.
>>> Note: Some input files use unchecked or unsafe operations.
>>> Note: Recompile with -Xlint:unchecked for details.
>>> 1 error
>>>
>>> BUILD FAILED
>>> /home/jenkins/jenkins-slave/workspace/Cocoon
>>> 2.1.X/BRANCH_2_1_X/tools/targets/compile-build.xml:68: The following
>>> error occurred while executing this line:
>>> /home/jenkins/jenkins-slave/workspace/Cocoon
>>> 2.1.X/BRANCH_2_1_X/tools/targets/compile-build.xml:51: Compile failed;
>>> see the compiler error output for details.
>>>
>>> I have also re-enabled notifications to [email protected], hope it's
>>> working now.
>>>
>>> Regards.
>>>