On 02-09-15 13:11, Michal Privoznik wrote:
On 28.08.2015 13:12, Wido den Hollander wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Wido den Hollander <wido(a)widodh.nl>
> ---
> INSTALL | 2 +-
> build.properties | 6 +++---
> 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
> index 581512d..2cdd829 100644
> --- a/INSTALL
> +++ b/INSTALL
> @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ main item you may need to change in this file is the jars.dir
> property. This property should point to a directory which contains
> the junit.jar and jna.jar files.
>
> -You will need a Java Development Kit accepting the version 1.6
> +You will need a Java Development Kit accepting the version 1.8
> of the language since the bindings use enums as well as the new
> for loop syntax
>
> diff --git a/build.properties b/build.properties
> index bcc7b8c..c7c1a43 100644
> --- a/build.properties
> +++ b/build.properties
> @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
> version=0.5.1
> release=1
> libvirt.required=0.9.12
> -java.required=1.6.0
> -java.target=1.6
> -java.source=1.6
> +java.required=1.8.0
> +java.target=1.8
> +java.source=1.8
> rpm.topdir=/home/veillard/rpms
> jar.dir=/usr/share/java
>
I know nothing about libvirt-java, but maybe you can be more verbose why
this change is needed.
The current code doesn't compile under Java 7, but Java 7 is also EOL.
Java 8 is the way forward since there won't be any security fixes for
Java 7 anymore.
Wido
Michal