I think the original 1.5 restriction was due to Jython not working with
later versions...
Regards,
Max Carlson
OpenLaszlo.org
On 1/29/10 9:47 AM, P T Withington wrote:
The last time Java broke our code, I updated our sources, except for those that I
could not (e.g., the ones that JavaCC generates). The ones I could not, get their
own<javac> with an explicit source version. I see no reason not to continue
the same policy going forward.
Right now, our sources compile just fine with 1.6.
On 2010-01-29, at 11:22, Henry Minsky wrote:
If things compile in the latest Java, I think we might as well use it.
I guess the question is if, down the road, some new Java comes out which
breaks something, if we're gonna
want to be able to specify the version again..
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 11:13 AM, P T Withington<[email protected]> wrote:
[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" />
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