I was talking about trunk, of course. Developers working in areas where backports are the norm have to carefully consider if and when using Java 7 language features would be appropriate. New portions of the codebase could use of the new features freely.
2016-04-06 16:19 GMT+02:00 Julian Reschke <[email protected]>: > On 2016-04-06 14:27, Francesco Mari wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> some months ago we decided to drop support for Java 1.6 [1]. What about >> increasing the language level of the compiler so as to be able to use the >> new features in Java 7? >> >> [1]: http://jackrabbit.markmail.org/thread/t3gzwi25tcz6masg >> > > Well... for which branches? > > At least in the areas where we *do* regularly backport things to Oak 1.0, > using Java 7 language features would be a problem... > > Best regards, Julian >
