JEP 118 Parameter Names by default

[Steven Schlansker]

Hi Michael,

Thanks for the link, this is exactly the explanation I was looking for.

I am disappointed in the decision, but not exactly surprised.

It really makes the feature less useful to have to go and educate every
user that they must now pass special compiler flags, as well as ensure
that every environment (Eclipse, IntelliJ, Maven, etc) honors the configuration.

I would love for this decision to be reconsidered for 9, but don't really expect
to have much luck pushing that point :)

Thanks!

> On Apr 27, 2016, at 7:19 PM, Michael Hixson <michael.hixson at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I found this old email reply to someone who asked a similar question.
> Maybe the same reasoning still applies:
> 
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/enhanced-metadata-spec-discuss/2013-May/000201.html
> 
> -Michael
> 
> On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 1:18 PM, Steven Schlansker
> <stevenschlansker at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi core-libs-dev,
>> 
>> Apologies in advance if this is the wrong list, I was torn between this
>> one and compiler-dev, but I'm already subscribed here so we'll try this first :)
>> 
>> I am trying to understand why the javac '-parameters' option is not enabled by
>> default.
>> 
>> Normally it would not be too onerous, but due to some limitations in e.g. Maven
>> it is surprisingly difficult to configure correctly in a world where you must
>> build code that both targets e.g. 1.8 and 1.7 (and soon 1.9):
>> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/maven-dev/201604.mbox/browser
>> 
>> While I am happy to work with the Maven project to improve their support
>> for sending compiler arguments more flexibly, I did wonder -- why is
>> this feature not on by default?
>> 
>> I did some brief searching and was unable to come up with any downside,
>> but maybe I missed something obvious?  Can we turn it on by default for Java 9?
>> 
>> Thanks for humoring me,
>> Steven
>> 
>>