[fedora-java] Eclipse Luna on Fedora 21 and JDK 8 requirement

[Christopher]

On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 5:33 PM, Sudhir Khanger <ml at sudhirkhanger.com>
wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 2:40 AM, Mat Booth <fedora at matbooth.co.uk> wrote:
> > What prevents you from running Eclipse on OpenJDK 8 but still targeting
> your
> > manually installed Oracle JDK 7 by adding it under "Installed JREs" in
> your
> > Eclipse preferences?
>
> I am running it under Java 8. So far without any visible problems. I
> am curious about what has been modified/changed in Fedora 21 to
> warrant requirement of Java 8. And if I want to run Eclipse or Android
> Studio under Java 7 what would I have to do. Mostly for academic
> purposes.
>
>
I think the main thing that has changed is that Java 7 isn't packaged for
F21. Plus, there doesn't seem to be a good reason to run it on Java 7, to
warrant the pursuit of -target 1.7 in its build, because Eclipse can still
cross-compile to other versions, even though itself is running on Java 8.

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Christopher L Tubbs II
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