Possibility of requiring Java 8 compiler for building Java 7 sources?

So I've been working on JDK 9 support for Beam, and I have a bug in AutoValue that can be fixed by updating our AutoValue dependency to the latest. The problem is that AutoValue from 1.5+ seems to be banned for Beam due to requiring Java 8 compilers. However, it should still be possible to compile

Re: Java 8?

Recently on Spark and Flink mailing lists there have been discussion on dropping support for Java 7. For master branch, we should consider moving to Java 8 for compilation. On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 2:41 PM, Swapnil Bawaskar <sbawas...@pivotal.io> wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying t

Java 8?

Hi, I am trying to write a write an I/O transform for Apache Geode, which is compiled with java-8. When I try to compile what I have so far, I get the following error: [INFO] --- maven-enforcer-plugin:1.4.1:enforce (enforce) @ beam-sdks-java-io-geode --- [INFO] Restricted to JDK 1.7 yet

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