[Engine-devel] Revisiting Java7

[Itamar Heim]

On 12/04/2012 11:20 AM, Allon Mureinik wrote:
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> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Itamar Heim" <iheim at redhat.com>
>> To: "Allon Mureinik" <amureini at redhat.com>
>> Cc: "engine-devel" <engine-devel at ovirt.org>
>> Sent: Tuesday, December 4, 2012 1:40:10 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Engine-devel] Revisiting Java7
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>> 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.