On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 09:23:50AM +0200, Jan Pazdziora wrote: > On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 02:55:11AM -0400, Partha Aji wrote: > > > > Recently I caused a couple of compile errors on Spacewalk... Basically > > my eclipse project has the compiler setting = Java 6. As a side effect > > of this when I have a class implement an interface the @Override tag > > gets inserted automatically.. Now this is perfectly good for java 6 or > > open jdk, but java 5 it breaks :(. Considering that we are shipping our > > current jars using stuff compiled with open jdk, is there any point in > > ensuring compatibility with java 5?... > > You want to be able to compile the thing with 1.5.0 and not rely > on 1.6.0 because there is no s390x version of EPEL 5. If you mandate > the use of 1.6.0, you will make it harder for Red Hat when they decide > to build Satellite out of Spacewalk.
Milan now pointed out that Satellite will likely be able to use 1.6.0 from IBM. So unless you do something Open JDK-specific, you should be safe with Java 6. -- Jan Pazdziora Satellite Engineering, Red Hat _______________________________________________ Spacewalk-devel mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-devel
