Builds fail due to use of preview features & removed arguments

[Maurizio Cimadamore]

On 19/12/2019 23:49, Jonathan Gibbons wrote:
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> On 12/19/19 3:30 PM, David Holmes wrote:
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>>> /home/ty/Downloads/jdk-master/src/java.compiler/share/classes/javax/lang/model/util/AbstractElementVisitor14.java:30: 
>>> warning: [preview] RecordComponentElement is an API that is part of 
>>> a preview feature
>>> import javax.lang.model.element.RecordComponentElement;
>>>                                 ^
>>> /home/ty/Downloads/jdk-master/src/java.compiler/share/classes/javax/lang/model/util/SimpleElementVisitor14.java:30: 
>>> warning: [preview] RecordComponentElement is an API that is part of 
>>> a preview feature
>>> import javax.lang.model.element.RecordComponentElement;
>>>                                 ^
>>> error: warnings found and -Werror specified
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>> I think this is more an issue for the language and compiler folk on 
>> compiler-dev. I'm not clear on all the rules around use of preview 
>> features but it seems to me that if we are using them internally and 
>> that generates warnings then we should be suppressing those warnings 
>> (@supressedWarning) at those call sites. Though I don't know whether 
>> you can suppress a warning for an import statement??
>>
>> David
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> This sounds like a bug.   In other analogous situations, we decided 
> not to give warnings on imports.
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This was an issue that was fixed few weeks ago by Chris and Jan

http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk/jdk/rev/8e76f81d057a?revcount=20#l110.18

I believe something else is at play here (like a repository not fully up 
to date).

Maurizio

> -- Jon
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