Re: [orbit-dev] Ant bundle requires Java version "=1.8" instead of ">=1.

["Alexander Kriegisch" <alexander@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry to ask again, but I am new on this ML and not sure if I made a mistake, posting something that was so far ignored. Should I rather contact the Ant bundle maintainer(s) directly in some way? If so, would you mind telling me how? Otherwise, if my message contains insufficient information, would you please guide me towards what the delta is you need to investigate my issue?
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Alexander Kriegisch


Alexander Kriegisch schrieb am 15.04.2021 15:32 (GMT +07:00):

> Disclaimer: I have never used OSGi before and am just trying to find out
> why the build of a product I am interested in is not working.
> 
> Firstly, I am sorry to cross-post both in the (mostly inactive)
> community forum (moderated, not published yet) and here.
> 
> The situation is as follows:
> 
>   ** I need to upgrade a product using Eclipse OSGi bundles.
> 
>   ** One upgraded bundle contains Java 11 class files, i.e. I need to
>      build running JDK 11+ for obvious reasons.
> 
>   ** Other than the compiler recognising the byte code version, I use
>      not Java 9+ features at all, my build target is 1.8.
> 
>   ** One indirectly required plugin Tycho pulls is Apache Ant from
>      Orbit. The concrete version resolved is 1.10.9.v20201106-1946.
> 
>   ** According to [1], the Ant bundle requires an exact match on Java
>      version 1.8 according to the 'requiredProperties' tag.
> 
>   ** I do not understand this restriction, as Ant itself just requires
>      Java 1.8+ to run, I use it in other projects with up to Java 16
>      without any issues.
> 
> Could someone please fix the bundle descriptor to '>=1.8' instead of
> '=1.8'? Otherwise neither I nor anyone else can ever build anything
> requiring Ant with Java 9+.
> 
> [1]
> https://download.eclipse.org/oomph/archive/reports/download.eclipse.org/releases/2021-03/index/org.apache.ant_1.10.9.v20201106-1946.html