Yes, we could do that, however, I would prefer to fix these if we can.
2017-12-17 15:26 GMT+01:00 Ricardo Wurmus <rek...@elephly.net>: > > Gábor Boskovits <boskov...@gmail.com> writes: > > > Currently I cannot compile java-aqute-bndlib, > > because java-classpathx-servletapi-3.0 does not work with java8. > > This is a known incompatibility between java7 and java8 definition of > Map, > > affecting multiple projects. > > I will focus on fixing that for now, and file a bug upstream. > > If a package does not build with Java 8 this does not mean that we > cannot use the latest JDK to build it. For those packages we might have > to patch the build.xml to ensure that the JDK considers the source to be > of a different version. > > javac supports the “-target” and “-source” options. This might be > helpful in situations like this. > > -- > Ricardo > > GPG: BCA6 89B6 3655 3801 C3C6 2150 197A 5888 235F ACAC > https://elephly.net > > >
