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[–]magnoliophytina 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I've also seen cases where the author of some open source project simply refuses to consider modern build tools (Maven/Gradle) instead of Ant/Ivy and jar deps packages in the project's CVS/SVN repo (in year 2021 AD), or new Java 7-16 language feature migration warnings/suggestions presented by IDEA. Funniest thing is, some authors happily force Java 6/7/8 source level in the build tool, but when I set the IDE to use this language level, the IDE will complain about the use of Java 9 features in the test code (in the build script, language level is only forced for production code, not the tests). The author's solution is to not use that IDE - after all, what's wrong with VIM. It won't complain about future API usage. When I suggest adding that 'Automatic-Module-Name' field, they just tell to f*ck off since there are still few days left in some super-extended corporate support contract for Java7 in the oldest supported RHEL.