John sorry, I think you didn't understand: The ONLY way we can really ship java7 binaries is by using the rt.jar from java7! If you compile java7 projects with java8 then you end up with jars which you cannot use on java7...
We might probably move the toolchains section to a profile (to make it easier to contribute as Romain argued) but removing it totally is a strict -1. LieGrue, strub On Thursday, 8 January 2015, 3:32, John D. Ament <[email protected]> wrote: > > >It seems a little over aggressive to use the toolchain to restrict. I'm going >to remove that for now, since jdkVersion is setting the right source version. > > >John > > >On Wed Jan 07 2015 at 7:04:07 PM Romain Manni-Bucau <[email protected]> >wrote: > >Any way to build with j8 by default to make it smoother to contribute? >>Le 7 janv. 2015 23:29, "Mark Struberg" <[email protected]> a écrit : >> >>> Hi! >>> >>> Due to the changes I did today you need both jdk1.8 and jdk1.7 installed. >>> You also need to copy the toolchains.xml into ~/.m2/ and modify it >>> according to your installation locations for java7 and 8 on your local box. >>> >>> >>> I tried to add instructions to README.md. Hope they are enough to get you >>> going. >>> >>> LieGrue, >>> strub >>> >> > >
