On Wed, Nov 3, 2021 at 12:54 PM Benjamin Evans <beevans(a)redhat.com> wrote:
Hi,
On Wed, Nov 3, 2021 at 10:32 AM Mikolaj Izdebski <mizdebsk(a)redhat.com> wrote:
>
> I've ported all my packages to be buildable with OpenJDK 17.
> I have not pushed the changes to dist-git yet, but I will do it before
> the end of the week.
>
> I wanted to share common problems I encountered and solutions I came up with.
> I hope that this will help others trying to port their packages.
>
> Problem 1: Compiler source/target levels 1.6 are no longer supported
> Solution: Bump source/target levels to 1.7 or 1.8
Just a general plea to please use 1.8 not 1.7 as a baseline - Java 7
was EOL'd 6 and a half years ago, and according to the most recent
data I have that I regard as trustworthy, its usage is <0.1% and down
in the statistical noise.
In my opinion, we really shouldn't be enabling the use of this
outdated tech, which is very likely to be deployed in all sorts of
very insecure ways.
IMHO our packages should be as close to upstream as possible. To the
possible extent we should respect upstream decisions to target
ancient, no longer supported Java versions. Therefore in cases
upstream targets Java < 1.7 I made the packages compile with 1.7
compatibility, which is the lowest version still supported by OpenJDK
17.
--
Mikolaj Izdebski
Thanks,
Ben