Please do not drop support for Java 8

minecraft-dev / MinecraftDev

Plugin for IntelliJ IDEA that gives special support for Minecraft modding projects.

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Please do not drop support for Java 8 #654

Closed LoganDark closed 5 years ago

LoganDark commented 5 years ago

I created this issue just to beg you to please not force JDK11, I need to use JDK 8 as the IDE boot JDK or ForgeGradle won't work.

Maybe I misunderstood the commit messages, but I'm just putting this out there. It would be a shame if you left people like me behind by suddenly starting to require a new JDK :(

RedNesto commented 5 years ago

Since 2019.2-1.3.1 the plugin is compiled with JDK 8 again, so this should no longer be an issue.

LoganDark commented 5 years ago

Yeah, this issue is here to say "please don't do that again". I never actually got that update, I just saw that there was one and checked the GitHub commits to see what changed.

DenWav commented 5 years ago

As soon as IntelliJ requires JDK11 so will this plugin. Frankly the fact that both 1. the Gradle tooling API has such a requirement at all and 2. IntelliJ doesn't mitigate that with any kind of sandboxing API is just straight up bonkers.

Once IntelliJ requires JDK11 there won't even be an option to go back to 8 anyways. Hopefully that is (gotta push forward). Don't worry though, they'd only do that once they've mitigated any issues with interacting with Gradle etc.