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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