[libvirt] Can I request a new release of libvirt-java?

[Wido den Hollander]

On 09/17/2013 11:13 AM, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 10:09:36AM +0200, Wido den Hollander wrote:
>> On 09/17/2013 09:23 AM, Daniel Veillard wrote:
>>> On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 09:04:46AM +0200, Wido den Hollander wrote:
>>>> On 09/16/2013 07:58 AM, Daniel Veillard wrote:
>>>>>    Raising this due to maven
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 05:26:24PM +0800, Daniel Veillard wrote:
>>>>>> On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 11:13:53AM +0200, Wido den Hollander wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>> [...]
>>>>>>
>>>>>>    Indeed that was the problem, I just commited the fix, thanks !
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Somewhat related to this: It seems you have compiled with Java 7
>>>> causing the bindings not to work with Java 6.
>>>>
>>>> A lot of users are still running Java 6 on their systems.
>>>>
>>>> You could do this with in build.xml:
>>>>
>>>> <javac target="1.6" .../>
>>>>
>>>> Or something like:
>>>>
>>>> <property name="javac.target" value="1.6" />
>>>> ..
>>>> <javac target="${javac.target}" .../>
>>>>
>>>> Java 6 is still around and I think it should be supported for older
>>>> platforms.
>>>
>>>    I just compiled with the java available in my system (fedora 19).
>>> Do one really need to release for every version of java potentially
>>> using libvirt-java ?
>>> Can't they just rebuild locally too ?
>>>
>>
>> Sure, but if the code in libvirt.org/maven2 is Java 1.7 systems
>> building with Maven and using Java 1.6 can't use it.
>>
>> There is no special code in libvirt-java which requires Java 1.7 to operate.
>>
>> By setting the source and target version to 1.6 the code will run on
>> at least 1.6, but will work just fine on 1.7 systems.
>>
>> It's mainly a compatibility thing.
>
>    Okay, let's just assume i know absolutely nothing about Java use in
>    practice :-)
>

No problem! But the current situation is that the 0.5.0 version out 
there only works with Java 7.

Maybe release a 0.5.1 which is compiled for Java 1.6?

>>>    I take patches :-) as build.xml is in git
>>>
>>
>> Just sent a patch :)
>
>    ACK'ed i think you can push, right ?
>

I don't have push permissions on the libvirt-java repo.

Wido

> Daniel
>