On Thu, 12 Dec 2024 15:29:33 GMT, Christian Stein <cst...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> User-facing help messages read:
>>
>> javac --help
>> ...
>> --release <release>
>> Compile for the specified Java SE release.
>> Supported releases:
>> 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23,
>> 24, 25
>>
>>
>> jar --help
>> ...
>> --release VERSION Places all following files in a versioned
>> directory
>> of the jar (i.e. META-INF/versions/VERSION/)
>
> Maybe this reads better? `release version of {0} too high: {1}`:
>
> release version of META-INF/versions/9/version/Version.class too high: 25
> release version of META-INF/versions/10/version/Version.class too high: 25
>
> Note that the path of the JAR entry contains the target release version
> number, and `Version.class` was compiled with `javac` 25 (with `--release
> 25`).
Prior-art in the messages do read:
error.release.value.notnumber=\
release {0} not valid
error.release.value.toosmall=\
release {0} not valid, must be >= 9
error.release.unexpected.versioned.entry=\
unexpected versioned entry {0} for release {1}
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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/22103#discussion_r1882383691
