I've decided to just leave the old bytecode targets alone for now. I created https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GROOVY-8783 for the addition of the new bytecode targets.
On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 5:16 AM Paul King <pa...@asert.com.au> wrote: > Was there a Jira issue for this yet? > > Thanks, Paul. > > On Mon, Sep 3, 2018 at 10:33 PM Keegan Witt <keeganw...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I'm working on adding Java 9, 10, and 11 bytecodes to the 2.5 branch, and >> 9, 10, and 11 bytecodes when using invokedynamic to master, when I noticed >> we allow the targets to go back quite a ways. >> >> Should we continue to let the Groovy compiler target Java 4, 5, 6, and 7 >> in master, given that master requires Java 8+? I can't think of a valid >> use case where this would be useful. What do you think of removing them? >> >> -Keegan >> >
