Or, with latest tools:
- Update poms to set langlevel explicitly, if not set
- Pay attention to maven and plugin reqs re JVM
- Use toolchain
Etc

On Sat, Nov 7, 2015, 10:22 Tamás Cservenák <[email protected]> wrote:

> How bout starting to fail if lang level is not explicitly set and _remove_
> defaults?
>
> Am sick of discussions in present about something to happen in future
> future (when thing is released) to fit something EOLd in past :)
>
> Ie. For the stuck people: Use current/older versions of tooling, if you
> are stuck with old JVM: just accept you are stuck with tooling too then...
>
> On Sat, Nov 7, 2015, 08:56 Hervé BOUTEMY <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> since it's a good practice to define java version explicitely, to avoid
>> any
>> misunderstanding, I'm not sure changing default value is really something
>> important: what's important it to know that it costs only 2 properties
>> (and
>> eventually merge them)
>>
>> notice that if we change default value, I want to see a table in the
>> plugin
>> documentation showing which version of the plugin has which default java
>> version
>>
>> because the immense benefit I see currently is that it's always the same
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Hervé
>>
>> Le samedi 7 novembre 2015 08:28:51 Anders Hammar a écrit :
>> > Just to clarify, it's Oracle's JDK 1.7 that is EOL. IBM still supports
>> > their Java 6 and 7 level JDKs.
>> >
>> > Moving to a 1.7 default is still ok I think. However, if we think that
>> most
>> > people will still need to configure 1.8 (or 1.9 soon) I don't see the
>> point
>> > of doing this as it does introduce a level of incompatibility for those
>> > still using Java 6 or earlier. The default could then stay at 1.5.
>> >
>> > /Anders
>> >
>> > On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 10:30 PM, Karl Heinz Marbaise <[email protected]
>> >
>> >
>> > wrote:
>> > > Hi,
>> > >
>> > > -1 to 1.8
>> > > +1 to 1.7
>> > >
>> > > so we already jump over 1.6 as default which is absolutely ok...
>> > >
>> > > Kind regards
>> > > Karl Heinz Marbaise
>> > >
>> > > On 11/6/15 10:17 PM, Christopher wrote:
>> > >> +1 to at least 1.7
>> > >>
>> > >> However, since 1.7 is EOL, I do think it also makes sense to default
>> > >> to 1.8, since it's the earliest version still getting public security
>> > >> updates, and therefore it's reasonable that most people should be
>> > >> using that version if possible. It's a trivial matter to configure
>> the
>> > >> plugin for an earlier version if the software needs to be built to
>> > >> support a system that's not updated. These systems can (and probably
>> > >> already are) using older versions of this plugin anyway, so changing
>> > >> the default in newer versions isn't likely to affect them.
>> > >>
>> > >> But, at the very least, 1.7 is a big +1, incremental improvement to
>> the
>> > >> default.
>> > >>
>> > >> --
>> > >> Christopher L Tubbs II
>> > >> http://gravatar.com/ctubbsii
>> > >>
>> > >>
>> > >> On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 2:04 PM, Gary Gregory <[email protected]
>> >
>> > >>
>> > >> wrote:
>> > >>> +1 for 1.7.
>> > >>>
>> > >>> Gary
>> > >>>
>> > >>> On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 4:56 AM, Attila-Mihály Balázs <
>> [email protected]
>> > >>>
>> > >>> wrote:
>> > >>>
>> > >>> Hello,
>> > >>>
>> > >>>> Given that we're almost in 2015, what do people think about
>> updating
>> > >>>> the
>> > >>>> default source / target for maven-compiler-plugin to 1.8? (And
>> also on
>> > >>>> the
>> > >>>> site:
>> > >>>>
>> > >>>>
>> https://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-compiler-plugin/examples/set-com
>> > >>>> piler-source-and-target.html ).
>> > >>>>
>> > >>>> If there is interest, I'm happy to submit a patch!
>> > >>>>
>> > >>>> Cheers,
>> > >>>> Attila Balazs (Grey Panther)
>> > >>>>
>> > >>>>
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