We can do a placeholder under java group and then com.sun.java,
com.ibm.java,...
This won't work very well until we have some "provides" mechanism that
will pick one implementation and only one.
On 7/7/06, Alan D. Cabrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Yikes. That strikes me as truly scary and assumes that everyone is
running Sun compilers/JVMs. Am I misunderstanding something?
Regards,
Alan
Carlos Sanchez wrote:
> I think we should add the rt.jar and tools.jar to the repo as any
> other dependency, to allow building with 1.5 against 1.4 rt.jar. Of
> course we'll hit again the Sun policy about redistribution and people
> would have to put it by hand in their repos.
>
> On 7/7/06, Kenney Westerhof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Fri, 7 Jul 2006, [ISO-8859-1] Trygve Laugstøl wrote:
>>
>> > Uhm, no. All you have to do to be 100% that it works in a 1.4
>> > environment is to fork the compiler. AFAIK the Eclipse compiler should
>> > also be able to build 1.4 code safely against the 1.4 rt.jar
>> >
>> > Still this really won't change the current situation as you have the
>> > same issue today if you build against 1.2 or 1.3. Or 1.4 with a 1.5
>> JDK
>> > which I'm sure many people do.
>>
>> The -target and -source only checks the current sources, unfortunately.
>>
>> The compiler should ideally also check if the imported classes have the
>> correct format (< 48 or something), and it should check the @since
>> javadoc tags in the API to warn against usage of unavailable
>> classes/methods in the target environment.
>>
>> Frankly, the -target and -source compiler options are quite useless.
>>
>> So yes, the only way to be sure is to fork the correct jdk.
>>
>> But I don't see a problem in having a jdk for maven itself and one
>> for the
>> target environment. They should be split up anyway. The only problem is
>> that both the compilers and the plugins need to know this (surefire
>> for instance, or possibly class-enhancing plugins etc.).
>>
>> Seems like a lot of work to get this perfect.
>>
>> Too bad, I really want to switch to Java 5 for Maven (especially for the
>> generics and annotations!)
>>
>> And yes, java 5 plugins work like a charm. Haven't tried enumerations
>> yet,
>> though.
>>
>> -- Kenney
>>
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