Hi, > I think it would be reasonable to relax the restrictions on -source > -target if they match the value for -release. The main goal here is to > avoid having to resolve conflicts, but if there's no conflict, there's > no problem. > > I think that allowing the older form of numbers (1.8, 1.7, etc) for > older releases is OK too, in which case the check between -source and > -release should (probably) be on the normalized numbers, i.e. although > perverse, the intent of -source 1.7 -release 7 is clear.
That's exactly how I had this in mind! One other thing: The current warning about bootstrap classpath when you only have "-source -target" could maybe extended to notify the user that it might be better to use "-release" instead: warning: [options] bootstrap class path not set in conjunction with -source 1.8 Maybe change to something like: warning: [options] bootstrap class path not set in conjunction with -source 1.8; consider using -target 1.8 Uwe ----- Uwe Schindler uschind...@apache.org ASF Member, Apache Lucene PMC / Committer Bremen, Germany http://lucene.apache.org/
