<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Jun 6, 2019 at 1:51 PM Brian Goetz <<a href="mailto:brian.goetz@oracle.com">brian.goetz@oracle.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">library authors suffer a familiar problem: if @Foo is meta-annotated <br>
with a target kind of RECORD_COMPONENT, then that means it must have <br>
been compiled against a Java 14+ JDK, which means that the resulting <br>
classes are dependent on JDK 14+, unless they use something like MR Jars <br>
to have two versions in one JAR. This would further impede adoption.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>This has been one of my concerns about A. Multirelease jars make a solution possible, but it is still a lot of headache for the library owner to build them (I assume I would need to branch or use a preprocessor of some kind). I think B or B+ is what we want.</div></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="line-height:1.5em;padding-top:10px;margin-top:10px;color:rgb(85,85,85);font-family:sans-serif"><span style="border-width:2px 0px 0px;border-style:solid;border-color:rgb(238,178,17);padding-top:2px;margin-top:2px"></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>