----- Original Message ----- > On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 7:20 AM, Andrew Hughes <ahug...@redhat.com> > wrote: > > I was going to ask the same. I don't see any good reason to change > > this. > > Fair enough. What needs to happen for us to move on to 1.7 and > eventually 1.8 which both have classfile format and language changes? >
Even OpenJDK doesn't do this for all class files and 1.8 is not going to be released for nearly a year. The only one I see a point in is 1.8 when we start to implement code that uses lambdas. The rest don't give a significant advantage against preventing ease of building the code. As a prerequisite, gcj would still have to be able to build if these changes were integrated. It currently doesn't have a 1.7 compiler. That's something I'm looking into with getting support for the latest ecj into Classpath. -- Andrew :) Free Java Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com) PGP Key: 248BDC07 (https://keys.indymedia.org/) Fingerprint = EC5A 1F5E C0AD 1D15 8F1F 8F91 3B96 A578 248B DC07
