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[tycho-user] Set fallback execution environment to JavaSE 1.6 in 0.17.0?

In Tycho 0.17.0, we changed the behaviour of the dependency resolver if no execution environment is configured [1]: Instead of using JavaSE-1.6, the dependency resolver of 0.17.0 assumes that the artifact that is currently built needs to run in a J2SE-1.5 execution environment.

 

Having received multiple problem reports related to this change, I now think that this change was a bad idea and should be reverted:

·       If the resolution fails because packages from JavaSE-1.6 are used, the error message gives no hint about the root cause (e.g. “Unable to satisfy dependency from <third-party-bundle> to package javax.xml.bind”)

·       A project that uses JavaSE-1.6 needs to set the executionEnvironmentDefault target-platform-configuration parameter, even if all bundles specify a Bundle-RequiredExecutionEnvironment: JavaSE-1.6. The reason for this is that every module has its own execution environment configuration, so a feature including the bundle may fail to resolve if it is assuming an J2SE-1.5 execution environment. So in particular projects with a good setup suffer from the bad choice of default.

·       It is questionable if bundles built for J2SE-1.5 would be installed correctly: If your users access any of the repositories of Eclipse, p2 will always assumes that it is installing for JavaSE-1.6 (see p2 bug 346174 [2]). A default value should work for most users.

 

To address these problems, I propose to change the global execution environment default of Tycho to JavaSE-1.6. This has the following side-effect for bundles that don’t have no explicit execution environment configuration and no explicit compiler source/target configuration: These bundles would now be compiled with a source and target level of 1.6 instead of 1.5.

 

IMHO this side-effect is acceptable because

·       most users will have an execution environment configured or the compiler source/target level and are hence not affected.

·       a 1.6 default source/target level is still quite conservative.

 

 

I have reopened bug 387796 [3] to track the proposed change for 0.17.0. Either join the discussion on the bug or reply here if you have concerns/remarks/etc.

 

Regards

Tobias

 

[1] http://wiki.eclipse.org/Tycho/Execution_Environments

[2] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=346174

[3] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=387796

 

 


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