On Thu, 2012-10-04 at 11:39 +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote: >> Java 1.5 has not been supported since November, 2009. It's time to move >> on.
On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 8:58 PM, Mark Wielaard <m...@klomp.org> wrote: > What benefits does this bring? Are there specific source code structures > you want to start using in the code? What new byte code constructs might > be generated by this change? There are no bytecode changes but I think classfile format changed a little. I think the only language changes are related to pluggable annotations and @Override semantics. My agenda here is to eventually push GNU Classpath source and target to 1.7. It's probably easier to get there if we bump up to 1.6 first to see if anything breaks.
