Tim Ellison wrote:
It is available in both Sun and Eclipse compilers (as different names),
so I'll take that as +1.
How about IBM?
Of course, as soon as the JCHEVM can understand 1.5-format class files
we'll drop the target flag.
Regards,
Tim
Geir Magnusson Jr wrote:
Tim Ellison wrote:
As discussed on the list, there is a compiler option in the 5.0
compilers we use that allows source code containing a subset of Java 5.0
language features to be compiled into 1.4 compatible class files.
Since this is quite a significant change I'd like to get a vote on
whether the project should make this compiler option a necessity for our
code.
I'm scared of tying us to only 1 compiler, although it would be nice to
get going on some of the 5.0 features.
The positive outcome of this is that we can develop APIs that rely on
those 5.0 language features, and run the resulting code on existing
1.4-compatible VMs.
The downside is that we are using an undocumented compiler feature on
the reference implementation (it is supported on the Eclipse compiler).
[ ] +1 - Yes, change the build scripts to compile 5.0 code to 1.4 target
[ ] 0 - I don't care
[ ] -1 - No, don't change the compiler options (please state why)
+1 as long as this can be found in both the Sun and Eclipse compilers,
-1 if not
geir
