[GROOVY-6850] Allow compilation to JDK8 bytecode

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.3.3
• Assignee: Cédric Champeau
• Reporter: Keegan Witt
• Created: 05/Jun/14 10:59
• Updated: 11/Jun/14 14:25
• Resolved: 11/Jun/14 02:07

Description

We'd need to add JDK8 to the CompilerConfiguration.ALLOWED_JDKS array (JDK8 is already defined as a final String) and add a case to WriterController.chooseBytecodeVersion(). I'm not sure if there's other updates needed or not.