Re: [Jflex-devel] Minimum build JDK: 6->7 ?

[Steve R. <sa...@gm...>]

Hi Gerwin,

> On Mar 9, 2017, at 10:45 AM, Steve Rowe <sa...@gm...> wrote:
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>> On Mar 8, 2017, at 10:13 PM, Gerwin Klein <ge...@do...> wrote:
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>> Sorry, have overlooked this somehow. Yes, no problem from my side with switching the minimum supported build to 1.7.
> 
>> Do you want to push the change directly?
> 
> Sure, I’ll do that some time this week.

Done.

One question: previously the docs stated that the runtime Java version was 1.5, but I removed that, since the current build requires 1.7.  Do you want to put it back?  I.e. is there some magic that allows the distributed binary to be built with an older version of Java?

>> It’d be nice to make the test suite aware of JDK version at the points where it is sensitive to that. If I remember correctly the failure was just a different output order of a Hashtable or similar.
> 
> What sort of awareness are you thinking of?  Allowing only a single version of the JDK?  Or switching between expected output depending on JDK version?  Or…?

I’d appreciate your thoughts on this ^^.

Thanks,
Steve