>so it would be nice if our components do compile and work on Java 8 It does of course. But if you compile with java8 then it _might_ not work with older java versions. So it's fine for packages built by Fedora FOR Fedora. But those jars might not work on any other linux distro. Which is ok from the Linux distro side, but a bit unexpected from a Java perspective...
LieGrue, strub On Friday, 2 May 2014, 15:44, Emmanuel Bourg <ebo...@apache.org> wrote: Le 02/05/2014 15:37, Gary Gregory a écrit : >> So the plan is to let each [component] pick how they want to deal with Java >> 8 right? > >As a side note, I'd like to emphasize that our source code is being >recompiled by downstream packagers, most notably Linux distributions. >Fedora 21 will default to Java 8 and Debian is working toward this goal, >so it would be nice if our components do compile and work on Java 8. For >now math, exec and bcel aren't working properly. > >Emmanuel Bourg > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org >For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
