On Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 12:28 AM, Sudhir Khanger <ml@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 5:06 AM, Christopher <ctubbsii-fedora@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> to warrant the pursuit of -target 1.7 in its build
Would it have caused technical problems to have included both 1.7 or
1.8 as targets?
Either I'm not understanding you, or you're not understanding the
problem. F21 could have built as -target 1.7 and run on the provided
Java 8 JVM, but also could have run under a user-specified Java 7 JVM
(assuming there weren't any bootstrap classpath problems that would have
prevented such a build, which there are... but it may not matter for
Eclipse and its dependencies). I can't imagine there would be any reason
to build Eclipse for both, unless Eclipse itself has some internal
restriction that prevents it from building projects using Java 8, when
itself was built with Java 7. The fact that there isn't a 1.7 JDK to
build against properly, to address the bootstrap classpath problem, is
not a technical problem, so much as a policy that prevented OpenJDK7
from being packaged alongside OpenJDK8 in F21.
Even if
you could build Eclipse targetted for 1.7, I'm not sure there's any
point, except to support running an older JRE that the user manually
downloaded. I'm not sure it should be a goal that Fedora's packages be
built to run on top of VMs that are older than the ones provided... that
seems nonsensical. Developing *for* those older VMs, sure, but not
running the build tools, like Eclipse, on them. It just seems like a
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