Right, that’s true. The more JDKs you require in the build, the harder it is to set up. If you target Java 8 but build at a newer release, you could possibly get away with a single JDK plus an API checker to avoid using new things.
On Fri, Nov 1, 2019 at 22:33 Jaikiran Pai <jaiki...@apache.org> wrote: > Hello Matt, > > On 31/10/19 2:34 AM, Matt Sicker wrote: > > Java 9 and beyond can be handled with version specific code in META-INF. > > I think we should be able to do that even now. Of course, _building_ Ivy > would need higher version of Java (to use those specific APIs) but once > built, we can package these higher version classes within the META-INF > structure and that should get picked up if someone uses Ivy in a higher > version of Java and at the same time shouldn't impact Java 8 usage. > > -Jaikiran > -- Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com>
