Re: [Engine-devel] Revisiting Java7

From: "Itamar Heim" <iheim(a)redhat.com&gt; To: "Allon Mureinik" <amureini(a)redhat.com&gt; Cc: "engine-devel" <engine-devel(a)ovirt.org&gt; Sent: Tuesday, December 4, 2012 1:13:49 PM Subject: Re: [Engine-devel] Revisiting Java7 On 12/04/2012 11:20 AM, Allon Mureinik wrote: > > > ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Itamar Heim" <iheim(a)redhat.com&gt; >> To: "Allon Mureinik" <amureini(a)redhat.com&gt; >> Cc: "engine-devel" <engine-devel(a)ovirt.org&gt; >> Sent: Tuesday, December 4, 2012 1:40:10 AM >> Subject: Re: [Engine-devel] Revisiting Java7 >> >> On 12/03/2012 04:03 PM, Allon Mureinik wrote: >>> Hi guys, >>> >>> Earlier today, Java6 compatibility was broken >>> (http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/9430/). >>> This was picked up on pretty quickly, and easily fixed >>> (http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/9666/). >>> >>> However, I think this is a good opportunity to revisit our policy >>> towards Java 7. >>> Currently, we have an "odd" setup, where we recommend running a >>> compiling /with/ Java 7 [1] but comply to Java 6 language level >>> [2] and JDK [3]. >>> Inevitably, mistakes like the that happened today will happen. >>> >>> I know we're holding back due to GWT issues, but looking forward >>> to >>> oVirt 4.0, is Java 7 on our roadmap? >> >> what was the GWT issue? > GWT 2.3 that we use doesn't support java 7 syntax. > The latest version, 2.5, doesn't either. > I'm not sure, however, this is a good reason to enforce the java 6 > limitation on the entire project (including backed, rest, etc.) i agree. you can limit it to the parts used by GWT for now.