Sorry for the protracted voting period. The vote was carried: +1's from Mark Hindess, Oliver Deakin, Stefano Mazzocchi, Etienne Gagnon, Tom Malone, Mikhail Loenko, Karan Malhi, Nathan Beyer, Richard Liang, Paulex Yang, Geir Magnusson, Stepan Mishura, Anton Avtamonov.
+0 from Leo Simons -1 none Regards, Tim Tim Ellison wrote: > As discussed on the list, there is a compiler option in the 5.0 > compilers we use that allows source code containing a subset of Java 5.0 > language features to be compiled into 1.4 compatible class files. > > Since this is quite a significant change I'd like to get a vote on > whether the project should make this compiler option a necessity for our > code. > > The positive outcome of this is that we can develop APIs that rely on > those 5.0 language features, and run the resulting code on existing > 1.4-compatible VMs. > > The downside is that we are using an undocumented compiler feature on > the reference implementation (it is supported on the Eclipse compiler). > > [ ] +1 - Yes, change the build scripts to compile 5.0 code to 1.4 target > [ ] 0 - I don't care > [ ] -1 - No, don't change the compiler options (please state why) > > > Regards, > Tim > -- Tim Ellison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) IBM Java technology centre, UK.
