Hi Craig On 2018-11-26, Craig Pell wrote:
> Has there been discussion or a bug filed regarding adding tasks to > support jmod and jlink? Now that there is no longer a separate JRE > and the new method of distributing standalone Java applications > requires jlink, this seems increasingly important. At least I'm not aware of anybody actively working on either - and I agreee it would be good to have tasks for them. Others? There is a deprecated jlink task for an ancient tool which may cause a bit of confusion. > I wasn’t sure whether the code is required to be Java 8 compatible. If it is not, then the release manager will need to build Ant with something more recent than Java 8. As long as this still allows to set the javac -target to 8, this is probably fine. Ant has included tasks that have been conditional on recent JDKs for a long time. I.e. we've had tasks that required Java 5 to compile even back when the base line was Java 1.3. You can take a look at the build file for 1.8.4 to see how we handled it back then: https://github.com/apache/ant/blob/rel/1.8.4/build.xml#L174 is the starting point to see how/where we dealt with those classes. Stefan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@ant.apache.org
