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

On Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 2:40 AM, Mat Booth <fedora@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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