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On Mon, 10 Apr 2017 23:56:04 +0200 |
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> Except that the packages don't get recompiled unless you take manual |
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> action to recompile them. If you fail at this action, you may end up |
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> having broken software because the rebuild has not been complete. |
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Which is the duty of the team, or whom ever is adding the new Java |
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version to tree. Not like this stuff ends up in tree magically. They |
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should be running something to rebuild and reinstall packages. |
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I did that recently but I ran into other issues. You cannot go |
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backwards with Java on Gentoo. If you use 1.9 to compile and then go |
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back to 1.8 you have serious RUNTIME problems. |
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https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Java_Developer_Guide#Bootstrap_class_path |
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For anyone accusing me of making assumptions about other languages they |
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do the same for Java on Gentoo. Very few know that system well. Much |
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less the issues that still exist. The solutions are much more complex |
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than for other languages. |
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To safely build 1.8 java code under say 1.9/9. You need 1.8 rt.jar. |
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Gentoo has no means for this. The solutions are not pretty. |
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> TARGETS *have been added*. This is *the new way*. This *did change*. I |
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> have no clue why you pretend it's some ancient status quo when |
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> the remnants of old code were removed two months ago. |
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Things changed, but users still have TARGET variables to maintain or |
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ignore. Developers still have to add new versions to packages. Touching |
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every ebuild for every new version. |
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No one has said that is not the case yet.... That is a lot of work. |
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William L. Thomson Jr. |
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