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
