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Why not have a separate minumum java version
for development?
We could require Java 8 for the dev/build
machines, but produce java 6 bytecode.
So for end users nothing changes (Java 6 still
supported), but developers can make use of new java features.
Samuel
Am 21.05.19 um 11:45 schrieb Stephan
Bergmann:
On
21/05/2019 11:15, Stephan Bergmann wrote:
Increasing the baseline should mainly be a
compatible change, as old code (e.g., extensions) should
continue to work with newer Java installations. The only
drawback is that code compiled against the newer baseline (e.g.,
the URE jars from our builds being distributed somewhere on the
Maven infrastructure?) cannot be used with older Java
installations.
...and of course we need to bump the minimal supported versions at
jvmfwk/distributions/OpenOfficeorg/javavendors_*.xml (and bump the
<updated> elements there, which entails the inconveniences
discussed at
<https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/plugins/gitiles/core/+/6b8a96c421bc4766ed6c11791174689da86fa703%5E!/>
"Note when javavendors_*.xml <updated> should be updated").
And note that we bumped the baseline to Java 6 only rather
recently, during the LO 6.3 timeframe, see
<https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/plugins/gitiles/core/+/49c21e31ce0501044a7d3602379f74c71dabb00b%5E!/>
"Javavendors: Set minimum version to 1.6" and
<https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/2019-February/081991.html>
"Minutes of the ESC call 2019-02-07" section "bump java baseline
to 1.6 (Samuel, Thorsten)".
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