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FS#62946 - [intellij-idea-community-edition] Allow Java versions greater than 8

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Jean Lucas (flacks) - Thursday, 20 June 2019, 02:58 GMT
Last edited by Antonio Rojas (arojas) - Thursday, 27 June 2019, 13:34 GMT
Task Type General Gripe
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Very Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
The IDEA Arch package currently has a strict dependency of a Java 8 environment, whereas IDEA runs fine with at least Java 12. Recommendation to change the requirement from '=8' to '>=8'.

Additional info:
* Package version 2:2019.1.3-1
This task depends upon

Closed by  Antonio Rojas (arojas)
Thursday, 27 June 2019, 13:34 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Comment by Levente Polyak (anthraxx) - Thursday, 20 June 2019, 10:04 GMT
Because they only support jre8, there were tons of problems just several month ago (and still are when looking at their issue trackers).
They also upstreamed lots of patches so jre12 may or may not work better compared to anything in between but its certainly not a trivial and easy to test switch. It goes far deeper than "it opens" and there were issues in subcomponents like gradle. >=8 would mean to do intensive test circles with all versions available inbetween (because as said, just like 3 month ago there were still serious issues).

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/62146
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/57752
Comment by Jean Lucas (flacks) - Saturday, 22 June 2019, 06:24 GMT
Understood. I did not consider the build. Thanks for explaining!

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