[josm-dev] Switch to Java 6?

Frederik Ramm frederik at remote.org
Sat Nov 28 18:44:00 GMT 2009


Hi,

Dirk Stöcker wrote:
> Good plan, but I don't think it will work. When we say Java 6 yes, then 
> the usage of Java 6 features will grow very fast in too many places to 
> ever build a Java 5 version later. Especially as there will be no Java 5 
> check due to build failure anymore.

Too bad. If this were C, we could simply do "#ifdef JAVA6" in the code 
and thus make it compile under 1.5 and under 6, allowing tests for both.

Bye
Frederik

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