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Kattis / problemtools

Tools to manage problem packages using the Kattis problem package format.
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Explicitly set language versions for Java and Kotlin in languages.yaml #257

Open mpsijm opened 4 months ago

mpsijm commented 4 months ago

Explicitly setting the language version in the compiler options makes it easier to locally debug compile errors when running verifyproblem outside Docker. Note that the Kotlin version 1.3 will need to be upgraded to 1.8 soon (see #246), but @ghamerly told me that 1.3 is currently what's still used for installing the problems on Kattis.

It would be nice to also have something similar for Python, but python does not have a flag for setting the language version. This would require to explicitly refer to /usr/bin/python3.8, but that means I'd need to explicitly install Python 3.8 next to 3.11 on my system, which I'd rather avoid :stuck_out_tongue:

pehrsoderman commented 2 weeks ago

Pinning language versions like this is a bit of a maintenance headache. I am not sure if the gain is worth the cost.