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Re: [proposal] java5 as minimal runtime for maven 2.1 (and 2.0.10 ?)

by davidkarlsen :: Rate this Message:

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On Sun, 4 May 2008, nicolas de loof wrote:

>> Once we have the toolchains fully in place and allow easy cross-compiling
>> independently of the JDK running Maven, there seems to be no reason why
>> the
>> build tool shouldn't be run with a higher Java than the minimum JRE for
>> the
>> project under build.
>>
> This is allready not a limitation : I'm building java 1.3 projects using
> maven 2 running on JDK 6. I simply use the compiler target=13 and
> bootclasspath to point to JRE1.3 rt.jar. The toolchain would make this even
> simplier as the JRE1.3 path has to be set by developers in settings.xml
> using a non-standard property.

+1 - doing the same here.
And as it was mentioned earlier 1.4 is EOL. Let's move on and get the goodies :-)


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