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Bug 464771 - [Mars] Require Java Version 1.7 or higher in all EPP packages
Summary: [Mars] Require Java Version 1.7 or higher in all EPP packages
Status: CLOSED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: EPP
Classification: Technology
Component: package content (show other bugs)
Version: 4.5.0   Edit
Hardware: All All
: P3 major (vote)
Target Milestone: 4.5.0M7   Edit
Assignee: Project Inbox CLA
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Depends on: 423734
Blocks: 421702 481997
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Reported: 2015-04-16 04:57 EDT by Markus Knauer CLA
Modified: 2015-11-12 04:55 EST (History)
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Description Markus Knauer CLA 2015-04-16 04:57:38 EDT 
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #423734 +++

For Eclipse Luna it has been decided that some packages require a Java level 1.7 or higher, whereas other packages were only requiring 1.6 or higher.

With Eclipse Mars the situation has changed. First of all we all are a year older and more (most) users have updated their Java VMs to a higher version, i.e. it is safe to assume that less and less people will run into problems when we increment our version requirement in the remaining packages to 1.7, too.

But the more important reason is that the Eclipse Platform team is delivering some core bundles with a BREE of 1.7 (see message [1] on epp-dev).

Therefore we should think about changing the remaining packages to require at least 1.7, too.


[1] https://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/epp-dev/msg03469.html
Comment 1 John Arthorne CLA 2015-04-16 09:15:46 EDT 
Makes sense, I'm sure all packages have bundles requiring Java 7 at this point.