[jira] [Closed] (MCOMPILER-362) Change default source/target option to be a bit more modern

["Robert Scholte (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MCOMPILER-362?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Robert Scholte closed MCOMPILER-362.
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    Resolution: Won't Fix
      Assignee: Robert Scholte

I'm going to close this as won't fix for now. If you had a look at other issues related to the value of source/target you might have seen that with maven-compiler-plugin 3.8.0 the defaults have been changed to 1.6 due to MCOMPILER-335.
In short: every project should specify a source+target and shouldn't rely on the plugin default, because it is not as constant as it should be. The value for source/target are the lowest supported by the latest Java version. This way everybody can create a "Hello World" application with the minimum pom file.
So once Java 12 is released, we'll upgrade this value to 1.7
For all details, please read MCOMPILER-335 first.

> Change default source/target option to be a bit more modern
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>                 Key: MCOMPILER-362
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MCOMPILER-362
>             Project: Maven Compiler Plugin
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: theminecoder
>            Assignee: Robert Scholte
>            Priority: Trivial
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> With the impending release of Java 11, I think it's about time that we update the source/target compiler options to something that isn't (at the time of writing) 4 major versions behind.
> With the amount of libraries that require at least Java 8 and Java 8 being the current LTS version, I would like to propose that we change the default to be at least a minimum of Java 8, with the option to change back to the older compiler versions like how we have to switch to Java 8 currently. 



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