Bug#288619: Shouldn't 1.5 provide 1.4 and 1.4 provide 1.3?

Arnaud Vandyck Arnaud Vandyck <avdyk@ressource-toi.org>, 288619@bugs.debian.org
Wed Jan 5 14:24:02 2005


Wed, 05 Jan 2005 21:47:05 +0100, 
Alessandro Polverini <alex@nibbles.it> wrote: 

> On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 12:44 -0600, Jerry Haltom wrote:
>> Well, 1.4 code, using the 'enum' word, is compatible with the 1.5
>> compiler. I believe it issues warnings unless the proper --source level
>> or something is set.
>
> Also, if I'm not mistaken, the problem arise only when (re)compiling the
> code: already compiled one (even if using the enum keyword) has no
> problem running on a JDK 1.5 target.

Yeah, you are right! That make a lot of sense! ;-) 

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