[OpenLaszlo Developers: I am in the process of updating our build tools. Henry noticed a duplicate definition in our build.xml specifying that our Java source is 1.5 (incorrectly put there by me). But this makes me wonder: do I need this default at all? Is there any reason not to default to the underlying Java?]
Hm... Ok, I put that there because I wanted to allow using Java 1.6 (the default Java on my Mac), and I thought, from reading Ben's comments in the build file regarding what Java we support that I needed to set these defaults so the <javac> tasks would default to compiling from/to Java 1.5. We do have a couple of places where we explicitly direct javac to compile 1.4 sources (our javacc seems to generate 1.4 Java and you get a bunch of warnings if you try to compile it as 1.5). I just tried removing these declarations and compiling and everything went just fine. Can you think of any reason that we need to restrict our JAva source to being 1.5? My feeling is that if we encounter incompatibilities, we either update our Java source, or, as we did with the javacc output, explicitly call out the sources that must be compiled with legacy Java versions. It _might_ be more important to specify a default target, if we want our binary distributions to be able to run on Java 1.5 installations, but my reading is that 1.5 was made obsolete by Sun last November. [Off-topic: Why does Sun have these confusing versions where Java is 1.X but the JDK is X.0?] On 2010-01-29, at 10:36, Henry Minsky wrote: > It doesn't look like it got changed in the change though... > > > On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 11:37 PM, P T Withington <[email protected]> wrote: > >> That was part of my change. One is supposed to say .target. >> >> >> On Jan 28, 2010, at 21:14, Henry Minsky <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I just noticed my build.xml has this duplicated line >> >> <property name="ant.build.javac.source" value="1.5" /> >> <property name="ant.build.javac.source" value="1.5" /> >> >> >> >> -- >> Henry Minsky >> Software Architect >> <[email protected]>[email protected] >> >> >> > > > -- > Henry Minsky > Software Architect > [email protected]
