Bruno Haible via Gnulib discussion list <[email protected]> writes: F> Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier wrote: >> That said I wonder, without distributing a binary downstream anymore, >> is `-target 1.1` still needed? >> >> Only weird case I can think of is a javac that can't build for the JRE, >> but wouldn't that effectively be a broken system? > > We distribute a binary .class file, so that the developer / release manager > can be using a higher-version JDK than the user is using.
How was the .class file generated? Can it be re-generated using some current tools? Guix allows access ancient tools using the guix time-machine feature, but I'm not sure if the necessary version of tools are available in Guix. /Simon
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