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From: "Petteri Räty" <betelgeuse@g.o>
To: "Sven Köhler" <skoehler@×××.de>
Cc: gentoo-java@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-java] Re: JDK used for compiling
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 20:41:24
Message-Id: 4741F498.7090601@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-java] Re: JDK used for compiling by "Sven Köhler"
1 Sven Köhler kirjoitti:
2 >> The default choice is the highest version of the default vm set for the
3 >> arch.
4 >
5 > Hmm. And the code is also compiled against the newest class library?
6 >
7 > For the given reasons (see the example code) that's not a good idea.
8 > Code compiled with a too new JDK might actually throw
9 > NoSuchMethodErrors, for example.
10 >
11
12 People committing ebuilds and marking them stable should make sure that
13 it works with the lowest atom specified by the dependencies.
14
15 Regards,
16 Petteri

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