Eclipse Luna on Fedora 21 and JDK 8 requirement

[Sudhir Khanger]

On Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 2:40 AM, Mat Booth  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.

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[Christopher]

On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 5:33 PM, Sudhir Khanger 
wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 2:40 AM, Mat Booth  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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