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Robert Scholte commented on MCOMPILER-335:
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If the value is dropped, we should break the build in my opinion if these
values aren't set. But that's too painful for starters. So leaving the value to
1.5 is actually consistent, results are predictable and when developers need
newer language features, they must set source/target or release anyway.
Adding the hint how to set these values is probably already an improvement.
> Update default source/target
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> Key: MCOMPILER-335
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MCOMPILER-335
> Project: Maven Compiler Plugin
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Affects Versions: 3.7.0
> Reporter: Fred Bricon
> Priority: Major
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> default source/target have been set to 1.5 in 2010 (MCOMPILER-80). I think
> it's about time to update the default.
> 1.8 would be my preference, as 9 /10 would probably be a tad too ambitious.
> But, since Maven requires at least Java 1.7 to run, 1.7 is probably the
> safest option.
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