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Michael Busch commented on LUCENE-718:
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Yeah, but I thought nobody worked on this for 18 months, and it doesn't seem to
be a big problem. But of course feel free to reopen!
We have >250 unscheduled issues in JIRA, I wanted to start cleaning up a bit as
we're almost in the code freeze phase now...
> possible build.xml addition to ensure 1.4 class compatibility
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>
> Key: LUCENE-718
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-718
> Project: Lucene - Java
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Other
> Reporter: Hoss Man
> Attachments: check.bootclasspath.patch, check.bootclasspath.patch
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> As encountered recently, setting the "source" and "target" values for the
> java compiler don't acctually test that the classes/methods are 1.4
> compatible -- just that the language syntax/features are...
> http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6333296
> ...i've come up with one possible solution, that's really feels like a hack,
> but i wanted to throw it out here for comment, in a nutshell:
> 1) we support a new optional javac.bootclasspath property indicating with
> path the
> compiler should use.
> 2) people compiling with 1.4 can ignore that property
> 3) anyone who has a 1.5 compiler by default, can set this proprety to
> point at a 1.4 copy
> of the rt.jar -- which is not inlcuded (users would need to install
> it themselves)
> 4) as part of the "init" target the build file will attempt to compile a
> java class that is
> syntactically correct in java 1.4, but utilizes a method only
> available in 1.5 ... if this
> class compiles cleanly, the task will fail.
> 5) java 1.5 users that aren't concerned about submitting compatible
> patches back to
> the comunity and don't want to hassle with a 1.4 version of rt.jar,
> can set
> a"javac.trustbootclasspath" and go about their merry way.
> The main idea here being that if someone has both JVMs installed and
> accidently uses the wrong one to test something before submitting a patch or
> committing, their build will either fail with a helpful message, or compile
> against the correct set of core classes anyway if they've done a small amount
> of setup.
> Caveats to commiting this:
> a) it's a hack, so i don't wnat to commit unless multiple people like it
> b) at the moment, all "successful" ant executions print a confusing
> compiler error as right
> off the bat, it would be better if we could supress that somehow.
> c) the BUILD.txt should be updated accordingly.
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