Records and annotations

[Kevin Bourrillion]

On Thu, Jun 6, 2019 at 1:51 PM Brian Goetz <brian.goetz at oracle.com> wrote:

library authors suffer a familiar problem: if @Foo is meta-annotated
> with a target kind of RECORD_COMPONENT, then that means it must have
> been compiled against a Java 14+ JDK, which means that the resulting
> classes are dependent on JDK 14+, unless they use something like MR Jars
> to have two versions in one JAR.  This would further impede adoption.
>

This has been one of my concerns about A. Multirelease jars make a solution
possible, but it is still a lot of headache for the library owner to build
them (I assume I would need to branch or use a preprocessor of some kind).
I think B or B+ is what we want.