[hibernate-dev] ORM 5.1 vs compatibility with Java 6

[Gail Badner]

Hi Sanne,

I didn't notice the failures either. I've been running it with JAVA6_HOME
pointing to jdk7, but I can't remember why I would have changed it to that.

It sounds like 5.1 branch will be a product branch for a while, so if it's
easy to make it compatible to JDK6, then I'd prefer to do that.

It looks like there are only 2 failures:
1) an unused import for import java.util.Objects, which is easily deleted.
2) ReflectHelper#JAVA_CONSTANT_PATTERN uses java.util.regex.
Pattern.UNICODE_CHARACTER_CLASS.

Vlad, is there some other flag that can be used that is compatible with
JDK6? If not, is there some other reasonable flag that we can use instead?

Regards,
Gail

On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 9:24 AM, Sanne Grinovero <sanne at hibernate.org>
wrote:

> Is Hibernate ORM 5.1 still meant to be compatible with Java 6?
>
> The readme seems to promise that it should be, but it's not: I
> happened to try compiling it and it failed, as some recent changes are
> using JDK classes which have been introduced in 7.
>
> Turns out it builds fine for Andrea an Chris, as they don't have the
> JAVA6_HOME variable set: in this case the build will be lenient: log a
> warning and move on.
>
> I guess the same was done by all others on the team? CI is not
> checking this either.
>
> Wondering if you all feel like it's worth fixing branch 5.1, or if
> it's a dead branch anyway.
>
> Thanks,
> Sanne
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