On 12/04/2012 03:53 PM, Alon Bar-Lev wrote:
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From: "Itamar Heim" <ih...@redhat.com>
To: "Allon Mureinik" <amure...@redhat.com>
Cc: "engine-devel" <engine-devel@ovirt.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 4, 2012 1:13:49 PM
Subject: Re: [Engine-devel] Revisiting Java7
On 12/04/2012 11:20 AM, Allon Mureinik wrote:
----- Original Message -----
From: "Itamar Heim" <ih...@redhat.com>
To: "Allon Mureinik" <amure...@redhat.com>
Cc: "engine-devel" <engine-devel@ovirt.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 4, 2012 1:40:10 AM
Subject: Re: [Engine-devel] Revisiting Java7
On 12/03/2012 04:03 PM, Allon Mureinik wrote:
Hi guys,
Earlier today, Java6 compatibility was broken
(http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/9430/).
This was picked up on pretty quickly, and easily fixed
(http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/9666/).
However, I think this is a good opportunity to revisit our policy
towards Java 7.
Currently, we have an "odd" setup, where we recommend running a
compiling /with/ Java 7 [1] but comply to Java 6 language level
[2] and JDK [3].
Inevitably, mistakes like the that happened today will happen.
I know we're holding back due to GWT issues, but looking forward
to
oVirt 4.0, is Java 7 on our roadmap?
what was the GWT issue?
GWT 2.3 that we use doesn't support java 7 syntax.
The latest version, 2.5, doesn't either.
I'm not sure, however, this is a good reason to enforce the java 6
limitation on the entire project (including backed, rest, etc.)
i agree. you can limit it to the parts used by GWT for now.
The major advantage to move to java7 is the try-with-resources statement.
If we can do this for 3.2 it will be great. From what I understand from Allon,
the only noisy change is to move the common and compat out of the backend
directory into its own top-level directory, so we can apply a different maven
policy on these two easily.
This way the common/compat and frontend will be built using 1.6 and backend
will be built using 1.7.
and searchbackend.
asaf, is there no easier way to enable java 7 compilation/enforcement
except for these 3?
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