[fedora-java] Bumping Maven compiler source/target to 1.6

[Jiri Vanek]

On 02/06/2015 02:37 PM, Mikolaj Izdebski wrote:
> I'm considering bumping minimal source/target values in Maven Compiler
> Plugin to 1.6 starting from Fedora 23. What is your opinion?

I would vote even for f22.


Anyway it is +1 for this effort.
>
> Java 9 is going to drop support for compiling for targets < 1.6.
> This change would allow us to notice some problems earlier and give us
> more time for fixing them.
>
> Currently XMvn ensures that all Maven builds are compiled with
> source/target of 1.5 and that target >= source (this is to avoid
> problems caused by JSR-14).
>
> The proposed change would adjust source/target used by Maven Compiler
> Plugin when building RPM packages, according to the following snippet:
>
>      source = max(source, 1.6)
>      target = max(target, source)
>

Thank you!

    J.