Max Berger wrote:
Hi Max,
Vincent,
Am 09.06.2008 um 20:01 schrieb Vincent Hennebert:
There’s a point that I’d like to further discuss: why wouldn’t we
implement Retroweaver/Retrotranslator in the Trunk? If we go the
cautious route, that is if we run the test suite on a 1.4 jvm after each
introduction of a 1.5 feature and before committing the change, I don’t
see what’s the problem. Doing it in a branch more or less boils down to
not doing it at all IMO... Or this would be a very short-lived branch
(no more than a few weeks), just the time to test
Retroweaver/translator.
Just saw that retroweaver contains verification against a 1.4 jdk if a
classpath is given (e.g. a 1.4 jdk is installed). We could add this to
the build path and require commiters to have a 1.4 jdk installed, and
call verification during the build phase. This would actually be an
advantage over the current situation, where 1.5 specific code (new
methods) are sometimes added accidentally.
Maybe we can start with just the verification an no retroweaving just yet?
Yes I like that idea :)
+1 from me.
Chris
