Proposed implementation of JEP 182 in JDK 11: drop javac support for -source/-target/--release 6 (original) (raw)

Alan Bateman Alan.Bateman at oracle.com
Mon May 14 13:51:16 UTC 2018

On 11/05/2018 23:02, Emmanuel Bourg wrote:

: We are facing the same issue in Debian/Ubuntu where we maintain ~1300 Java based packages. We opted to patch Ant [1] and Maven [2] (plexus-compiler actually) to automatically bump the source/target level to the minimum supported by the current JDK. This covers about 80% of the packages maintained. The remaining 20% are fixed manually, one by one. So far the Java 9/10/11 transition has led us to update ~300 packages, and unfortunately we are far from being done yet [3][4]. Do the upstream projects have maintainers and are there bugs submitted to the issue trackers of the upstream projects? Just curious as it seems that many of the issues are you wrestling with won't be solved by extending the support for --release 6 to yet another release. Instead it seems, at least based on a quick browse of the bug report logs, that many of the issues relate to things were deprecated and eventually removed (javah, extensions mechanism, the legacy doclet API, ....) and it makes me wonder if some of these "packages" are actively maintained or not.

-Alan

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