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

[Jeremy Manson]

Although this change does make javac9 run on JDK7, that's not what's
important about it.  The changes that Liam is making here will be important
for running every future N on every future N-1.  Basically, javacN should
*never* depend on SourceVersion.RELEASE_N.

This happens (coincidentally) to allow javac9 to run on JDK7, but that's
not something that is necessarily a feature requirement.

Jeremy


On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 11:30 AM, Remi Forax <forax at univ-mlv.fr> wrote:

> 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
>
>
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