[Openstreetmap] Re: JOSM release candidate

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

[Immanuel Scholz]
> No, but I know for sure, that it wont work. ;-(

Right. :(

> I am aware of this issue but decided to continue development JOSM on
> this platform, hoping that the free implementations will catch up
> quick enough to make it runnable in the soon future.

Probably a sane assumption. I know the classpath people are working on
the java 5 features in their generics branch.  Have not been able to
test it yet.  I've reported this problem to the debian BTS (#345012),
to track the issue.