Language features would be available for new, backport-free developments. Existing code doesn't have to use those features if they would be an issue during backports.
2016-04-07 10:25 GMT+02:00 Davide Giannella <[email protected]>: > On 06/04/2016 15:25, Francesco Mari wrote: > > 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. > > > > We were discussing this on chat. Generally I'd say +1 for trunk but we > risk to introduce problems for backports. > > Davide > > >
