On Jan 4, 2012, at 15:13 PM, Richard S. Hall wrote: > On 1/4/12 07:44 , Felix Meschberger wrote: >> Am 04.01.2012 um 13:39 schrieb Marcel Offermans: >>> It would be nice to learn how they intend to solve this issue before we do, >>> because it probably makes sense to align our decision with theirs. >> They will create two builds. This would be my option (c). > > I don't think that has been decided. > > From my understanding (and preference), they will maintain 1.4 source > compatibility by compiling against foundation, but target Java 5 in binary. > With this approach, the majority of people using modern JVMs will be able to > use the produced artifacts "as is", while people running on 1.4 will need to > recompile. You could do something similar.
Then the question remains: do we provide more than one artifact, or do we tell everybody that still wants 1.4 compatibility to "compile it themselves"? Greetings, Marcel
