Consider cucumber-java8 for deprecation

[mpkorstanje]

Update: With jhalterman/typetools#66 released we can hold off on deprecation until #2279 is resolved. Deprecation is still considered to ensure all step definition are static.

Original:

cucumber-java8 does not work on OpenJDK 12+. The Cucumber team does not have the time and people available to make cucumber-java8 work on OpenJDK 12+ so we are deprecating the module for removal.

This will also result in the removal of ScenarioScoped glue which will allow us to improve the caching mechanism used to match steps to regular expressions (#2035).

• v8.0.0 deprecate cucumber-java8
• v9.0.0 remove cucumber-java8

[JB99928]

@mpkorstanje what should be used as an alternative to cucumber-java8 to run on later versions of the JDK?

[mpkorstanje]

You can still use cucumber-java.

[ragsp21]

@mpkorstanje I'm a bit thick today. That means that going forward we won't be able to use cucumber-java-8 for any java version (12+ and less than 12)?

[mpkorstanje]

Currently v6 of cucumber-java8 does not work with Java 12+.

Unless something changes the following will be true at some point in the future:

• In v7 cucumber-java8 will be deprecated. You'll get a warning from your Compiler and IDE about this. But you can continue to use cucumber-java8 with Java 8,9.10,11.
• Starting with v8 cucumber-java8 will be removed. From this version onwards can not use cucumber-java8.

So if you wish to upgrade to Java 12 (presently) or Cucumber v8 (at some point in the future) you can not use cucumber-java8.