Java 9 now has a —release option which should help. However, if we set it to Java 7 I suspect the build will fail on the Java 9 stuff even though we are using the Java 9 compiler. I really don’t see a way to do this except by calling the compiler multiple times.
Ralph > On May 22, 2017, at 8:49 AM, Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I still want to see a better Maven plugin for handling Java 9 multi-release > jars and things like that. The whole Java 9 build is still rather hacky. If > the entire project was buildable in Java 9 and could still target 7, 8, and > 9, then that would be a simpler solution IMO. > > On 22 May 2017 at 06:16, Mikael Ståldal <mi...@apache.org> wrote: > >> IntelliJ IDEA is "smart" enough to automatically pick up the >> src/main/java9 folder. >> >> >> >> On 2017-05-21 22:26, Ralph Goers wrote: >> >>> Since src/main/java9 isn’t normally considered a source directory you >>> should be able to work with Java 7 as well. It will just ignore the Java 9 >>> files. >>> >>> Ralph >>> >>> On May 21, 2017, at 5:50 AM, Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> I set the JRE for that project to Java 9. I do not think you can set the >>>> JRE per source folder, only per project. >>>> >>>> Gary >>>> >>>> On May 21, 2017 1:29 AM, "Ralph Goers" <ralph.go...@dslextreme.com> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>> I’ve modified the build to put the Java 9 classes of the API into a >>>> separate source directory. Can you see if that helps things in Eclipse? >>>> >>>> Ralph >>>> >>> >>> >> > > > -- > Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com>
