Re: [java-gnome-hackers] Source and Target versions

[Serkan K. <se...@ge...>]

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Hi,

I would immediately need a patch for Gentoo if we follow this path.
Build system must ensure that it builds bytecode targeted for oldest
version possible. If we don't supply these parameters we can't
guarantee that this is the case.

But this doesn't mean we can bump the oldest version we support by
changing these numbers.

Regards,
Serkan

On 07/02/2012 10:50 AM, Andrew Cowie wrote:
> For a long time we're added
> 
> -source 1.5 -target 1.5
> 
> to the compiler line; this was largely based on our experiences in 
> Gentoo land where different bytecode versions really weren't as 
> forward-compatible as you'd think.
> 
> Here we are in the era of Java 7; should we be dropping these
> flags entirely and just letting the distro build environment do
> what it thinks best? I'm inclined to, but we [or more to the point,
> our developers] have been burned by this in the past.
> 
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