Isn't that because they need to use the Dalvik Java classes and JDK 8 is
not supported with Dalvik?
On 21 February 2014 05:22, Stephen F Northover <steve.x.northo...@oracle.com
> wrote:
>
> On 2014-02-19 12:46 PM, Johan Vos wrote:
>
>> Is there a policy on the location where properties are defined?
>> I see there are properties on a number of places:
>> build.properties (e.g. jfx.build.jdk.version=1.8.0)
>> build.gradle (e.g. ext.JAVA_HOME = JDK_HOME)
>> buildSrc/(e.g. linux).gradle (e.g. LINUX.compileSwing = true;)
>> command line properties (e.g. -Djfx.build.jdk.defenders=true)
>>
>> The reason I'm asking:
>> for Android/Dalvik, we don't require jfxBuildJdkVersion to be 1.8.0. There
>> are a number of ways to fix this. The current test is
>> if (jdkVersion != jfxBuildJdkVersion) {
>> fail("java version mismatch: ${jdkVersion} must be
>> ${jfxBuildJdkVersion}")
>> }
>>
>> We build the Android/Dalvik runtime with Java 7, hence this check fails.
>> We can either change jfx.build.jdk.version in build.properties (but not
>> conditionally), or we can skip the test if
>> System.getProperty("jfx.build.jdk.defenders) is true, or we can check if
>> the OS is Dalvik, or... or...
>>
>
> Is there a reason why you cannot build with 8? You will need to accept 8
> syntax (like lambdas).
>
>
>> I don't want to pollute the build files with too many tests, so I prefer
>> to
>> stick to the policy, if there is one.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> - Johan
>>
>
>
