[josm-dev] Java 1.5 versus 1.6 for plugins

[Dirk Stöcker]

On Fri, 12 Feb 2010, Roland Olbricht wrote:

> I've just developed a plugin (Public Transport) for JOSM which should be as
> portable as possible. Now I've received a request of a Mac OS user using Java
> 1.5 that the plugin doesn't work.
>
> I've set
>    <property name="ant.build.javac.target" value="1.5"/>
> in
> http://svn.openstreetmap.org/applications/editors/josm/plugins/public_transport/build.xml
>
> and I don't use any special features of Java 1.6. So has anybody an idea why
> the plugin doesn't work with Java 1.5?

I would not care about that any more. Java 1.5 support will be dropped 
with next release and we have < 4% Java 5 users (actually I only see 
"page impressions", not "users"). Suggestion for these is to update.

Ciao
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