Re: [Engine-devel] Java 7, revisited again

From: "Kanagaraj" <kmayilsa(a)redhat.com&gt; To: "Allon Mureinik" <amureini(a)redhat.com&gt; Cc: "engine-devel" <engine-devel(a)ovirt.org&gt; Sent: Wednesday, April 3, 2013 7:23:16 AM Subject: Re: [Engine-devel] Java 7, revisited again On 04/02/2013 07:03 PM, Allon Mureinik wrote: > Hola, > > A couple of weeks (months?) ago we discussed upgrading to Java 7.[1] > Generally, there was a positive vibe about moving forward with technology, > although we noted that this should not be done for common, compat and the > GWT modules, searchbackend is also used by GWT, this needs to be excluded as well. Thanks, Kanagaraj > under the limitation of the current GWT version we're using. > > Here's an initial suggestion for this upgrade: > http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/13519/ > > Areas handled and checked: > 1. compilation (including GWT compilation)[2] > 2. animal-sniffer validations for to makes sure that modules that aren't > supposed to use JDK7 features really don't[2] > 3. Running and making sure the UI still works :-) > (checkstyle issues which Laslo pointed out in the original discussion were > already solved in a different patch merged long ago) > > > Sincerely, > Allon and Alissa > > [1] http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/engine-devel/2012-December/003139.html > [2] This includes, of course, purposely introducing Java 7 syntax and JDK 7 > features to modules that aren't supposed to have them, > and making sure that the build fails early, as expected, without > having to add the -Pgwt-admin or -Pgwt-user profiles. > _______________________________________________ > Engine-devel mailing list > Engine-devel(a)ovirt.org > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/engine-devel