Possibly. There's no reason not to offer any jvm whose license will allow it. Any other can be manually installed.
Eric On 7/7/06, Alan D. Cabrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Yikes. That strikes me as truly scary and assumes that everyone is running Sun compilers/JVMs. Am I misunderstanding something? Regards, Alan Carlos Sanchez wrote: > I think we should add the rt.jar and tools.jar to the repo as any > other dependency, to allow building with 1.5 against 1.4 rt.jar. Of > course we'll hit again the Sun policy about redistribution and people > would have to put it by hand in their repos. > > On 7/7/06, Kenney Westerhof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Fri, 7 Jul 2006, [ISO-8859-1] Trygve Laugstøl wrote: >> >> > Uhm, no. All you have to do to be 100% that it works in a 1.4 >> > environment is to fork the compiler. AFAIK the Eclipse compiler should >> > also be able to build 1.4 code safely against the 1.4 rt.jar >> > >> > Still this really won't change the current situation as you have the >> > same issue today if you build against 1.2 or 1.3. Or 1.4 with a 1.5 >> JDK >> > which I'm sure many people do. >> >> The -target and -source only checks the current sources, unfortunately. >> >> The compiler should ideally also check if the imported classes have the >> correct format (< 48 or something), and it should check the @since >> javadoc tags in the API to warn against usage of unavailable >> classes/methods in the target environment. >> >> Frankly, the -target and -source compiler options are quite useless. >> >> So yes, the only way to be sure is to fork the correct jdk. >> >> But I don't see a problem in having a jdk for maven itself and one >> for the >> target environment. They should be split up anyway. The only problem is >> that both the compilers and the plugins need to know this (surefire >> for instance, or possibly class-enhancing plugins etc.). >> >> Seems like a lot of work to get this perfect. >> >> Too bad, I really want to switch to Java 5 for Maven (especially for the >> generics and annotations!) >> >> And yes, java 5 plugins work like a charm. Haven't tried enumerations >> yet, >> though. >> >> -- Kenney >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
