Re: Build system and Java 8 was: Re: [Vote] (RIVER-432) Jar files in svn and src distributions

2014-02-13 Thread Peter Firmstone
No, I fixed the build system last time to support Java 5 language features, I don't have the time or inclination to fix it again. ClassDep needs to be able to find dependencies by analysing byte code. So to support finding dependencies for Java 8 language features, someone will need to add th

Re: Build system and Java 8 was: Re: [Vote] (RIVER-432) Jar files in svn and src distributions

2014-02-12 Thread Greg Trasuk
Hi Peter: I’m still trying to understand what you’re suggesting. Are you talking specifically about classDepAndJar? When I try to run the build against JDK8-EA, I get an exception in ‘org.objectweb.asm.ClassReader’. Which I suspect could be fixed by a more recent version of asm, although I

Re: Build system and Java 8 was: Re: [Vote] (RIVER-432) Jar files in svn and src distributions

2014-02-11 Thread Peter
Well, River doesn't build, throws exceptions, it won't work for client code either and it doesn't support Java 8 features. I wrote the java 5 language support code, I would rather spend time reorganising the build once, than maintain a build tool. Just my thoughts. - Original message

Build system and Java 8 was: Re: [Vote] (RIVER-432) Jar files in svn and src distributions

2014-02-11 Thread Greg Trasuk
Hi Peter: I’m not familiar with Java 8 yet. How is the current build not supported? Cheers, Greg. On Feb 11, 2014, at 5:35 AM, Peter wrote: > +1 Peter. > > Note that the current build system does not support java 8. > > Maintaining a build system is a significant burden ( I know I had