Am Montag, 15. November 2004 18:19 schrieb Tom Tromey: > >>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew John Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>>>> writes: > > Andrew> If this is the case, then is there a good reason for not > Andrew> starting to include 1.5 changes, that will compile with > Andrew> pre-1.5 compilers, into the HEAD branch? > > Andrew> * less problems with keeping generics in sync with the HEAD > branch, Andrew> especially when the point of merging finally does > arrive > > Actually, putting the new code on the trunk as well makes merging > harder, not easier. That's because when it is put on the trunk all > the generic bits must be stripped out, meaning that we'll have > different versions of classes on the trunk and the branch. This > probably isn't a severe problem, but I thought I'd mention it.
Isn't this a problem without putting new features into HEAD too as the class gets changes on HEAD and generics branch anyway ? Michael -- Homepage: http://www.worldforge.org/ _______________________________________________ Classpath mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/classpath
