Re: Producing java8 and java7 versions

2017-06-12 Thread Christofer Dutz
Hi Laurent, I love bleeding edge stuff, but I don’t like SM stuff … guess java 9 multi-jars sound more SM than bleeding edge for me. Guess it would not be good to base the build of an Apache project on that ;-) Chris Am 10.06.17, 09:31 schrieb "Laurent Perez" : On a

Re: Producing java8 and java7 versions

2017-06-10 Thread Laurent Perez
On a side note, in a few months, if you like to live dangerously, java9 comes with built-in support for multijar : http://in.relation.to/2017/02/13/building-multi-release-jars-with-maven/ laurent 2017-06-09 14:07 GMT+02:00 Jörg Schaible : > Hi Paul, > > Paul

Re: Producing java8 and java7 versions

2017-06-09 Thread Jörg Schaible
Hi Paul, Paul Hammant wrote: > Older releases tried to have a single jar that had adaptive bytecode > within, right Jörg > > Specifically, class file formats 49, 50, 51 in one Jar. This is still the case. The -java7 version just omits class files targetting Java 8, because in some

Re: Producing java8 and java7 versions

2017-06-09 Thread Paul Hammant
Older releases tried to have a single jar that had adaptive bytecode within, right Jörg Specifically, class file formats 49, 50, 51 in one Jar. - Paul On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 2:06 PM, Jörg Schaible wrote: > Hi Chistopher, > > Christofer Dutz wrote: > > > Perhaps not

Re: Producing java8 and java7 versions

2017-06-09 Thread Christofer Dutz
Hi Jörg, We have been discussing this option on the Edgent list and I guess this is the way it’s gonna be. Thanks for your feedback. Chris Am 08.06.17, 20:06 schrieb "Jörg Schaible" : Hi Chistopher, Christofer Dutz wrote: > Perhaps not adding

Re: Producing java8 and java7 versions

2017-06-08 Thread Jörg Schaible
Hi Chistopher, Christofer Dutz wrote: > Perhaps not adding any suffix to the version for the java8 version would > be ok and to add “java7” to the version for the legacy builds would be a > good compromise. That's what XStream has done with the last release. Cheers, Jörg

Re: Producing java8 and java7 versions

2017-06-08 Thread Maxim Solodovnik
I don't have computer right now, so I can't check I believe you can check pom in their repo or ask their mailing list :) Additional option might me: having version X.a.b.c for java7 and version Y.a.b.c for java8 Apache Wicket uses such naming ... WBR, Maxim (from mobile, sorry for the typos)

Re: Producing java8 and java7 versions

2017-06-08 Thread Christofer Dutz
Perhaps not adding any suffix to the version for the java8 version would be ok and to add “java7” to the version for the legacy builds would be a good compromise. Chris Am 08.06.17, 11:11 schrieb "Christofer Dutz" : So, they are adding the java version as a

Re: Producing java8 and java7 versions

2017-06-08 Thread Christofer Dutz
So, they are adding the java version as a suffix to the version of the artifact … don’t quite know if I really like that solution. I think It would break some version related automatisms, but it is definitely a safer solution as the classifier solution. But how would such a build look like?

Re: Producing java8 and java7 versions

2017-06-08 Thread Maxim Solodovnik
Hello Chris, Here is one example: https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/postgresql/postgresql/ WBR, Maxim (from mobile, sorry for the typos) On Jun 8, 2017 10:44, "Christofer Dutz" wrote: > Hi, > > Currently the Edgent project produces two tar.gz files … one for java7