On 17 January 2015 at 19:35, Thomas Neidhart <thomas.neidh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 01/14/2015 12:57 AM, sebb wrote:
>> I've been experimenting with Animal Sniffer in NET as a basic check
>> that the code does not try to use method etc which are not present in
>> the target Java version.
>> [For example, java.net.IDN requires Java 1.6+]
>>
>> Although the plugin is not fool-proof, it should help to check basic
>> errors and allow developers to check code even if they don't have the
>> requisite Java version installed.
>>
>> My question is - should it be included in Commons Parent?
>> And if so, should it be enabled by default?
>>
>> There are various ways of including it:
>> - inline. It can then be suppressed by defining animal.sniffer.skip
>> - as a profile which is enabled by default, potentially disabled
>> manually or by use of a resource file
>> - as a profile which is disabled by default, but enabled manually of
>> by use of a resource file
>>
>> The profile options would work a bit like Jacoc/Cobertura, but could
>> be enabled by default rather than disabled by default.
>>
>> WDYT?
>>
>> I would favour a profile, enabled by default, as this does not add to
>> the size of the main body of pom.
>>
>> Note: the build helper plugin can be used to automatically convert
>> from the maven.compiler.target syntax (e.g. 1.6) to the Animal Sniffer
>> signature syntax (e.g. java16) so there is no need to maintain a
>> separate variable.
>
> I have tested the latest parent 37-SNAPSHOT with the animal-sniffer
> plugin on email using OpenJDK 1.7 and it worked fine.
>
> Thanks!

Great, thanks for testing it.

> Thomas
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