[fedora-java] Java 8 testing in Fedora

[Aleksandar Kurtakov]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Orion Poplawski" <orion at cora.nwra.com>
> To: "Mikolaj Izdebski" <mizdebsk at redhat.com>, "Fedora Java Development List" <java-devel at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Sent: Monday, April 7, 2014 10:19:04 PM
> Subject: Re: [fedora-java] Java 8 testing in Fedora
> 
> On 04/07/2014 12:17 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> > On 04/04/2014 05:23 AM, Mikolaj Izdebski wrote:
> >> On 04/02/2014 08:16 PM, Deepak Bhole wrote:
> >>>> 3) Some new methods were added, which breaks existing code.  Examples:
> >>>>   java.util.Map - remove(K,V)
> >>>>   java.util.List - sort(Comparator)
> >>>>   java.lang.reflect.TypeVariable - getAnnotatedBounds()
> >>>>   sun.security.jgss.spi.GSSCredentialSpi - impersonate(GSSNameSpi)
> >>>>
> >>>> Solution: patch code to implement new methods
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> The java.util* ones use the new default mechanism and should pose no
> >>> problem afaik. Can you post a snippet of the error message?
> >>>
> >>> The last 2 will require code changes to accommodate those methods.
> >>> Thankfully there should be far fewer cases of those than the first 2.
> >>
> >> Duplicate methods named spliterator with the parameters () and () are
> >> inherited from the types Collection<LazyExtensionManager.Descriptor<E>>
> >> and Iterable<LazyExtensionManager.Descriptor<E>>
> >>
> >> Package: eclipse-dltk
> >>
> > 
> > Seeing similar with eclipse-photran:
> > 
> > [ERROR] Failed to execute goal
> > org.eclipse.tycho:tycho-compiler-plugin:0.20.0:compile (default-compile)
> > on project org.eclipse.photran.core.vpg: Compilation failure:
> > Compilation failure:
> > [ERROR]
> > /builddir/build/BUILD/org.eclipse.photran-5313e0561fbb3d888ecf1817c6101a36e0b89a07/org.eclipse.photran.core.vpg/parser/org/eclipse/photran/internal/core/parser/IASTListNode.java:[17]
> > [ERROR] public interface IASTListNode<T> extends List<T>, IASTNode
> > [ERROR] ^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > [ERROR] Duplicate methods named spliterator with the parameters () and
> > () are inherited from the types List<T> and Collection<T>
> > 
> > 
> > Is there a generic fix for this type of error?
> > 
> 
> Is this needed in Fedora?
> 
> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=409473

What you look for is https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=390889 . It's WIP and should enter fedora in a week or two mostly.

Alexander Kurtakov
Red Hat Eclipse team

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