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

[Remi Forax]

On 04/03/2014 11:01 PM, Jeremy Manson wrote:
> 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

ok, sorry, I overreact.

cheers,
Rémi

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