Hi,
I read that as you wanting to only use features of Java 1.3 (madness I say)
which will break once you have Java 8 as its javac will only support down
to -source 1.6 IIRC (but it may be 1.5)
I think it is current and two back that is the new policy that is being
introduced from Java 8 onwards...
Ah, interesting. I didn't know that about the downwards compatibility of
Java. Thanks for the clarification.
And I would agree that it would be madness to only use features of Java
1.3. :-D
Which is the very reason I took a closer look at how to configure a
higher Java compiler version in the first place ;-)
Best,
Malte
(2) I do *not* want having to monitor the maven-compiler-plugin by myself
all the time in order to check for updates and keep my pom.xml referring
to
the currently latest version;
Incompatible goal. If you have a version of the compiler plugin that is
working. Leave it as is. If it isn't broken, don't fix it. If you decide
that it is broken (e.g. you think the version you have is not compiling
fast enough) then try upgrading... this way you have control over your
build
My question is precisely *why* this goal is incompatible. You see, I am
allowed to not specify the maven-compiler-plugin version when I'm happy
with the default Java version. But as soon as I decide that I want to use
another Java version, I have to commit on a maven-compiler-plugin version.
That is suprising, is it not? :)
(3) yet I do *not* want Maven complaining about my project.xml being
malformed either.
Specify the version, or live with Maven complaining.
The Maven way is to make doing "the right thing" easy... doing the "not so
right thing" should encounter some friction... but unless we have good
reason we should not prevent you from shooting your foot off... we can
make
it difficult to aim the gun at your foot though!
So what you're saying is that the maven-archetype-quickstart archetype
does a "not so right thing" since it does not specify a
maven-compiler-plugin version in its POM?
Thanks,
Malte
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