On 02/27/2015 07:27 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
On 02/12/2015 09:52 PM, Paul Sandoz wrote:
Hi
In connection with the JEP there is also a design document to help the
discussion:
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~psandoz/jdk9/MultiVersionJar-8u60-9-design.md
We are especially interesting in hearing feedback from library developers,
tool/IDE developers, and anyone doing funky stuff with class loading and JAR
files.
I'm wondering how you propose to build such JAR files. Do you think
library developers will maintain two separate branches, compile one with
JDK 8, the other one with JDK 9, and then use some (not yet existing?)
tool to merge the output into a single JAR? Is such automated merging
even possible if the bytecode was compiled with different javac versions?
This is basically what I was getting at in my post. It's interesting
that JDK-8058150 (Compile for Specific Platform Version) is surfacing at
the same time, because it seems to me that this would make it possible
for javac to compile for multiple targets in one pass. Maybe not easy,
but possible. :-)
What about presenting Javadoc in a useful fashion?
Good question...
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