On 10 October 2011 22:02, Eric Kolotyluk <eric.koloty...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 2011-10-10 1:41 PM, Wayne Fay wrote: >>> >>> OK, I still clearly do not understand how sniffer is supposed to work, >>> and >>> it does not look like am going to any time soon, even after all these >>> explanations. >> >> A signature is like: >> char java.lang.String.charAt(int) >> >> Animal sniffer compares the Java code you are writing against the >> published signatures of popular Java APIs like Sun JDK 1.5, 1.6, IBM, >> JRockit, etc. That's it! If this is helpful to you, use it. If you >> need other functionality, animal sniffer may not be able to help you. >> >>> identifying the troublesome jar file. I am not really sure why no-one >>> recommended this to me in the first place as it effective and simple to >> >> Uhhh Benson *did* suggest this... did you miss it?? > > Yes, I did miss it - I guess I got too curious about sniffer - and then > frustrated - and then too distracted to go back and read Benson's remarks > properly. My bad. >> >>> On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 5:14 PM, Benson Margulies<bimargul...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> If you have to support 1.5, the easiest thing to do is eschew the use >>>> of 1.6 features. Just set the compiler plugin options for source and >>>> target of 1.5. >>> >>> Again, I am at a complete loss to fathom any utility in the sniffer. >>> Maybe I >> >> It is quite possible that your needs simply do not match the >> functionality provided by Animal sniffer. There are a large number of >> people who find it useful. Their needs may be different from your own. > > I was unable to determine if sniffer met my needs because I could not > understand what it was supposed to do. >> >> Perhaps you can summarize in 1 sentence what problem you are trying to >> solve, then various alternative solutions can be discussed. > > To check that (1) my sources were compatible with a Java 5 run-time and (2) > that any dependencies I was using were also compatible with a Java 5 > run-time (in particular that they did not contain version 50 class files). > > I believe Stephen answered (1) for me quite elegantly. It would help > tremendously if his explanation were documented on the introduction page. > I'm not sure if sniffer solves (2) which really was my original intent > because I had already solved (1) by other means.
http://mojo.codehaus.org/animal-sniffer/animal-sniffer/usage.html > > - Eric >> >> Wayne >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org
