Get rid of org.eclipse.jdt.annotation_v1 ?

[mickaelistria]

Get rid of org.eclipse.jdt.annotation_v1 ?

[iloveeclipse]

Not sure I understood what exactly should be faster.

The annotation library is not meant to be "running" on Java 8, it is just a library for those clients that want use JDT annotations version 1, because it is not compatible to version 2.

[stephan-herrmann]

I believe the proper way of deprecating the _v1 bundle, telling people where they can still get previous versions etc pp causes more churn, than keeping the bundle. Or is there any significant maintenance cost which it incurs?

[mickaelistria]

OK, thanks for your insights. I was asking this as an opportunity to make things slightly easier (ie build wouldn't require Java 8 any more for safe build), but it doesn't seem profitable at the moment. Let's close.

[iloveeclipse]

Mickael, build doesn't need Java 8, one can build on Java 17 with --release 8.

[mickaelistria]

build doesn't need Java 8

At the moment, it does.

one can build on Java 17 with --release 8.

Sure, but it's not the case yet, and as we already discussed, this may cause failures in case older, removed APIs are used.

[iloveeclipse]

this may cause failures in case older, removed APIs are used.

I'm not sure what do you mean by that, the --release 8 compiles against Java 8 API on Java 17 so it does exactly what Java 8 compiler would do, and if you have a case where this doesn't work it is a bug in compiler which you should report.

And annotations don't use any removed APIs, they only use java.lang.annotation package as single external reference.