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

[Alessandro Polverini]

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.

Alex

> 
> On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 11:12 +0100, Arnaud Vandyck wrote:
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> > Tue, 04 Jan 2005 12:07:35 -0600, 
> > Jerry Haltom <jhaltom@feedbackplusinc.com> wrote: 
> > 
> > > Package: java-package
> > >
> > > Shouldn't the Java 1.5 packages be made to provide the 1.4 packages,
> > > etc. To provide 1.5 means it obeys the 1.5 spec, which means it is
> > > compatible with 1.4. All the way back to 1.3, etc.
> > 
> > I'm not sure it's true. I think of the 'enum' problem and I'm sure there
> > are others.
> > 
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