Yes, we could do that, however, I would prefer to fix these if we can.


2017-12-17 15:26 GMT+01:00 Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>:

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> Gábor Boskovits <boskovits@gmail.com> writes:
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> > Currently I cannot compile java-aqute-bndlib,
> > because java-classpathx-servletapi-3.0 does not work with java8.
> > This is a known incompatibility between java7 and java8 definition of
> Map,
> > affecting multiple projects.
> > I will focus on fixing that for now, and file a bug upstream.
>
> If a package does not build with Java 8 this does not mean that we
> cannot use the latest JDK to build it.  For those packages we might have
> to patch the build.xml to ensure that the JDK considers the source to be
> of a different version.
>
> javac supports the “-target” and “-source” options.  This might be
> helpful in situations like this.
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