OK sorry for my wrong statement and thank you for your answer. Pierre
2014-11-19 17:37 GMT+01:00 Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org>: > On 19/11/2014 17:00, Pierre Viret wrote: > > Hello > > > > Since this commit it is not possible anymore to build tomcat 8 with > -target > > 1.7 & -source 1.7 but we have to use 1.8. > > That statement is not correct. > > > Is it really the awaited result? > > Yes, the impact of that commit was intentional. > > > I thought that Tomcat 8 was still jdk 7 > > compatible as stated in the release notes: > > http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-8.0-doc/RELEASE-NOTES.txt > > Tomcat 8 always has and still is Java 7. > > > Here an error I get with 1.7 (it works without problem with target & > source > > set to 1.8): > > As expected. You are trying to build trunk (Tomcat 9) with Java 7 but > Tomcat 9 requires Java 8. > > See this commit: > http://svn.apache.org/r1636341 > > Mark > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org > >
