Wayne Fay wrote:
This has been discussed several times on this list.
Sorry, I haven't found these discussions, neihter by searching for
compiler defaults nor by searching for byte code [version]
IMO, the default compilation target being 1.1 (or another hard-defined
version) meets the rule
I haven't performed a complete, in-depth historical analysis of every
thread involving compiler defaults to find all the discussions of this
issue, but here are 2 email threads you can refer to...
from David Smith
to users@maven.apache.org
date May 4, 2007 9:46 AM
subject Maven 2.0.6 using
Searching for version issues, I had a closer look at the *.class files
generated by Maven2 with the default compiler settings and found that
the first bytes of them are cafe babe 0003 002D ..., which is byte
code version 45.3 = Java 1.1.
First I was believing that I had this (target 1.1)
This has been discussed several times on this list.
IMO, the default compilation target being 1.1 (or another hard-defined
version) meets the rule of least surprise. You can argue that you
don't like 1.1 and you'd prefer 1.3 or even 1.5 but that is another
discussion.
In contrast, the rule of
