On Aug 1, 2009, at 4:49 AM, Antonio Petrelli wrote:
2009/8/1 Curt Arnold <[email protected]>:
We've discussed the javac target option previously, setting
target=1.2
Just a note, in companion component the target is 1.1, the source is
1.2.
does
not indicate that only methods in the JDK 1.2's class library are
used, it
means to output byte-code that adheres to that particular JVM's
byte code
format.
You're right, in fact the only problem is inside Eclipse, since it is
saying that the environment that I use (J2SE 1.2 over a Java SE 6)
gives me compile errors due to "restrictions in the use of some
classes", such as DOM classes.
The target setting was intentional. I'm not aware of any
significant improvement that would come from bumping it. I
definitely would
not want to bump it on log4j itself.
Why not on the companions, then? Java 5 is at the end-of-life, while
Java 6 is mature, why not jumping *at least* into Java 5?
Antonio
My minds a little fuzzy on the details, but I remember having to avoid
some combinations of target and source to work with particular
compilers. I'm open to evolving the settings if they are causing pain
with more modern environments, but cautious to change for the sake of
change in the mainline stuff. For the unreleased companions,
compatibility with obsolete JVM's is much less of an issue.
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