On Sun, 2008-05-11 at 00:08 +0100, Andrew John Hughes wrote: > Hi all, > > I recently noticed that our VM classes had acquired code that uses the > 1.5 language features. As I believe we agreed to keep these 1.4-clean > with respect to the language features, I've removed these. I assume > we wish to keep this policy as the only deficit is in brevity of the > source code (as we are only talking about 1.4 with respect to the > language specification). > > To prevent this happening again, I suggest we change our build to > compile these classes separately using -source 1.4 -target 1.4 (as I > did to find the regressions). In looking through our build > environment to work out how to do this, I noticed that we compile a > list of VM classes in vm.add which is then thrown away. The final > classes list we use doesn't contain the VM classes (they are dragged > in as dependencies instead). Does anyone know the logic behind our > gen-classlist.sh script? My suggestion would be to simply keep vm.add > as well as classes and compile this using the 1.4 options. > > What do others think of this proposal?
What is the reason to keep them 1.4? To be able to bootstrap VMs with e.g. Jikes? - twisti
