Release it

[gavinking]

I think we should do a release of this project to Maven. WDYT @emmanuelbernard @FroMage @Sanne ? Should we do it? Precisely how can I put jars in Maven? This is something I have never once done before...

[Sanne]

Yes we should release it. I can take care of that, but not this week..

Had already started to polish the build from committing jars in the repo, should finish that first too.

[gavinking]

One question: which version of the JDK should we be targeting here? Because I've been retesting everything and noticed that it doesn't compile on JDK 13 due to some minor changes to APIs in tools.jar. I'm going to test on JDK 11 now.

[Sanne]

Quarkus still needs JDK8 compatibility today.

Hopefully we'll soon target JDK11 only but we're not there yet. Testing with JDK 12, 13, 14 would be nice too.

[gavinking]

Quarkus still needs JDK8 compatibility today.

OK, great, perfect, we'll leave query-validator targeting JDK8.

[olsavmic]

Hi @gavinking, I believe releasing the tool on maven central would help adoption a lot - we decided NOT TO use the tool just because it complicates the CI test configuration.

And hopefully, an increased adoption would be a driver for further development (perhaps even by the community).
Is there any specific reason this package was never officially released?

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