Description Pierre-Charles David 2016-06-08 11:13:25 EDT

Currently Sirius targets Java 1.7, which is already relatively old. As a very first step towards moving to Java 8 (which will not happen until we've dropped support for Mars), we'll require Java 8 for the test APIs and test code itself. 

By itself, it should have zero impact on actual usage (as nothing in the Sirius platform itself will change), and relatively small impact on consumers. The only ones I can see is that we will now need a Java 8 runtime to build and run our tests (this include the Sirius HIPP, our internal CI server, maybe other downstream projects' servers too).

Once we've made the switch on the BREEs of the impacted plug-ins, we'll be able to start using more modern Java idioms in our test APIs and test code, and get enough familiarity about lambda, streams, and other recent language features so that we'll have more experience when we finally switch Sirius itself to Java 8.