[MCOMPILER-524] Please use useful defaults

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Not A Problem
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Christoph Läubrich
• Created: 27/Jan/23 09:21
• Updated: 28/Jan/23 11:15
• Resolved: 28/Jan/23 11:15

Description

I have this absolute minimal pom:

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
  <groupId>test</groupId>
  <artifactId>minimal</artifactId>
  <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
</project>

executing this with maven fails with:

[ERROR] COMPILATION ERROR : 
[INFO] -------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] Source option 5 is no longer supported. Use 7 or later.
[ERROR] Target option 5 is no longer supported. Use 7 or later.

As I have configured nothing, as a user I would expect that the defaults are something that at least can work and do not fail, or gives a strong indication that some kind of configuration is required but missing. In this case it would even be appropriate to instead have an error to issue a warning that level 7 is used instead.

Issue Links

• is related to: MNG-7666 Update default binding and lifecycle plugin versions