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Re: [jdt-core-dev] Building org.eclipse.jdt.annotation with Java7 fails 
Hi,

On the tests I agree.

For building the feature this gives me the following problems:
a) there's no JavaSE-1.8 EE and most likely there won't be one for 4.3.2
b) I can't simply map JavaSE-1.7 to my JDK8 in the toolchain because
   the current compiler part of tycho will most likely fail on projects
   when compiling against JDK8 e.g. because of missing interface
   methods, ...

I always thought jdt will provide a 4.3.2 feature patch to support
Java8, so will Equinox provide a JavaSE-1.8 EE by then also?

Anyways, I'll fix the compilation problems in my local git repo for now
so that I can get a BETA_JAVA8 build out.

Tom

On 05.09.13 13:54, Stephan Herrmann wrote:
> Hi Tom,
> 
> Are you really surprised that JDT for Java8 requires JRE8?
> The build failure should normally happen when checking the BREE:
> that bundle *should* require JavaSE-1.8. We just didn't set the
> BREE to JavaSE-1.8, because our development environment doesn't
> yet consistently support that BREE.
> 
> If you'd succeed building JDT on JRE7, running the tests on JRE7
> would still trigger thousands of failures. I don't know what good
> such a build would be.
> 
> If you really need to build JDT BETA_JAVA8 on JRE7 you might try
> to remove org.eclipse.jdt.annotation[2.0.0,3.0.0) from the JDT feature.
> If all goes well, this should "only" break the tests.
> 
> best,
> Stephan
> 
> On 09/05/2013 12:46 AM, Tom Schindl wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm trying to build BETA_JAVA8 branch as part of a CBI build and it
>> fails in org.eclipse.jdt.annotation because you are using
>> java.lang.annotation.ElementType.TYPE_USE which is only available since
>> Java8.
>>
>> So is this only an oversight or do you really require JDK8 for building
>> the next version of JDT?
>>
>> Tom
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