On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 10:19:49AM -0800, Alex Huang wrote: > The discussion on java support level caused me to check the poms to see if > there's a compat level set when compiling our source code. This used to be > in ant but looks to be lost in maven. I propose that we add the following > lines to our maven configuration. This basically says that even the source > is 1.7 jdk it should work with 1.6 jre. With this we will have a level of > guarantee that the binaries are compatible with jre 1.6 and on. This is a > direct result on the discussion on when to eol for java6. > > <source>1.7</source> > <target>1.6</target> > > --Alex >
Does this imply that it requires 1.7 to compile, but should be compatible with 1.6? Also, we're talking about master (i.e.: not 4.1), right?
