I need to point out that even after removing that there would be a lot of stuff in log4j-core that doesn’t work in Android.
Ralph > On Oct 14, 2017, at 12:02 PM, Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I am wondering if this is a little too early. A lot of tooling our there > does not play well with Java 9 class files. > > The last time I tried to use Log4j 2 (which contains Java 9 classes files > in the right multi-jar spot) with an Android app, the Android tooling threw > up all over itself because it was incorrectly trying to do something with > these Java 9 class file :-( > > Gary > > On Sat, Oct 14, 2017 at 7:53 AM, Stephen Colebourne <scolebou...@joda.org> > wrote: > >> On 14 October 2017 at 14:05, Rob Tompkins <chtom...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> On Oct 14, 2017, at 8:43 AM, Benedikt Ritter <brit...@apache.org> >> wrote: >>> Feels like a change that would warrant a major version change, but that >> would have us maintaining another major version branch. >> >> No need for a major version change. Its just one more .class file in >> the jar file. The jar file is still usable on Java 7 and 8, its just >> that the *build* is Java 9 specific. >> >> As Pascal says, really we want all the maven plugins to be ready for >> this, but we don't control those timescales. >> >> Options to fix the site plugin problem: >> >> 1) Alter the PR so that releases have to be in two stages - jar file >> build/deploy on Java 9 and site on Java 8. The risk is that someone >> forgets to do the release using Java 9. >> >> 2) Compile the module-info.java file on Java 9 and check it in (as a >> binary module-info.class file). Then the build could stay on Java 7/8. >> The problem however is that whenever a new package is added, the >> module-info.class file would have to be recreated and re-checked in, >> an error-prone process. >> >> Stephen >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
