Posted by Wade Walker on Mar 02, 2019; 9:59pm
URL: https://forum.jogamp.org/Is-JOGL-abandoned-dead-tp4039562p4039576.html

It's still possible to set Java 1.8 compliance when compiling with Java 11, but I'm not sure if the resulting build will actually work with Java 1.8, because to compile with Java 11 I had to remove -bootclasspath from our build.xml, so Java 1.8 may not be able to find these classes anymore.

There are also some unit test failures when running on modern OSes that would need to be worked through. There's the issue of GTK 3 compatibility on Linux, and there may be other problems with macOS 10.14 that I don't know about (my laptop only supports up to 10.13; I need to buy a new Mac :)). I also don't have any AMD GPUs, so any testing I do on Windows/Linux/Mac would be Nvidia-only. What I'm trying to say is that doing a high-quality new release would take a good bit of work, and would require hardware that I don't currently have available :)