I'm trying to clean up various build warnings.. I need some help/advice on
one of them.
In particular, we have 3160 cases of the following warning:
[repeat] warning: Supported source version 'RELEASE_7' from annotation
processor '<java file location here>' less than -source '1.8'
In looking at this in more detail, I noticed the following Annotation is
causing this warning..
@SupportedSourceVersion(SourceVersion.RELEASE_7)
This annotation is in 70 different files.
In looking at this closer, it really looks like we are not enforcing the
use of this annotation. Also, we mandate Java 8 as the minimum supported
release.
So we either need to update all the files to at least
SourceVersion.RELEASE_8. But, if we do this, this we will be back to having
the same warning when compiling using a newer version of Java. Or we could
just remove the annotation.
My vote is for removing the annotation. It creates a LOT of warnings. The
NetBeans sources has a lot of places where it completely ignores the
annotation and just calls into library directly like this:
if (javac.getSourceVersion().compareTo(SourceVersion.RELEASE_7) >= 0) {
Before I put forth the effort to remove the annotation, I wanted to get a
pulse from the group if this is the right course of action?
I would appreciate any comments/insight that I might be missing..
Thanks.
-brad w.
