[PATCH]: javac[8,9] with jdk7

[Remi Forax]

On 04/03/2014 07:40 PM, Liam Miller-Cushon wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 1:34 AM, Joel Borggrén-Franck 
> <joel.franck at oracle.com <mailto:joel.franck at oracle.com>> wrote:
>
>     having javac run with JRE n-1 in a degraded state would be a nice
>     contribution if the patches aren't too intrusive.
>
>
> It sounded like that was the general consensus, so I put together a 
> patch to allow javac 9 to run on jre 7 in a degraded state.

javac9 ??

I was thinking it was about running javac8 with jdk7 and not javac9 with 
jdk7,
I have no problem with the former but I'm strongly against the later,
there are several parts of javac that can be simplified by using lambdas 
instead of inner classes
so javac9 should not have a dependency on JRE n-2.

regards,
Rémi