[hibernate-dev] change the source to 1.7 in build script?

[Max Rydahl Andersen]

FYI, coincidentally I was looking at Java 7 adoption for JBoss Tools users and currently that is at ~24% out ouf ~730.000 starts the last month.

Plus Java 7 is not very stable for anything that has do with graphical rendering on either OSX and Linux OpenJDK - so it would currently
be a shame if Hibernate would require it yet IMO.
 
/max

On 16 Nov 2012, at 15:40, Steve Ebersole <steve at hibernate.org> wrote:

> Because we never agreed to move to 1.7.  And I don't think it makes 
> sense.  Java 6 is not even EOL yet (close, yes).
> 
> The only 1.7 source requirement as I understand it is that jaxb 
> "required" thing that you added.
> 
> We do currently need *javac* from 1.7 to compile master (and metamodel 
> since we are merging master into it) but that is due to a bug in the 1.6 
> javac (see earlier email to the dev list).  But there is actually 
> nothing there that is not 1.6 compatible in either source nor bytecode.
> 
> On 11/16/2012 01:23 AM, Strong Liu wrote:
>> seeing this all the times:
>> 
>> warning: [options] bootstrap class path not set in conjunction with -source 1.6
>> 
>> 
>> since now we need JDK 7 to compile master/metamodel, is there any reason that we still set the source level to 1.6?
>> 
>> 
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>> 
>> Strong Liu <stliu at hibernate.org>
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