JDK8 Preliminary Repository Layout

[Kelly O'Hair]

On Mar 11, 2011, at 1:51 AM, Alan Bateman wrote:

> Kelly O'Hair wrote:
>> 
>> I don't think that is the reason for the 1.4. But someone closer to this SA project would need to clarify this.
>> 
>> The reason was so that the SA could potentially operate on an older JDK as I recall.
>> I suspect 1.4 settings should have been changed to 1.5 in 1.6, and maybe 1.6 in 1.7.
> Sundar or Swamy might remember, but I'm pretty sure that SA was deliberately not updated to use generics in the jdk5 time-frame because the code was being used to get SA working with 1.4.2. Ancient history now and a nice little project for someone to do some clean-up. In any case, it's not good to compile with -source 1.4 without also setting -bootclasspath to specify the corresponding platform classes so another reason to re-visit this.

Yes now I vaguely recall this. This needs a CR filed. The 1.4.2 and even 1.5 use is something that needs to be re-visited.

I have also thought that these java sources should be compiled by the langtools boot javac.jar, whether
they use -source or not, all the java code and generated class files should be going through the latest javac
in the jdk being built, when doing a full forest build.

-kto

> 
> -Alan