SA and JDK ( was Re: JDK8 Preliminary Repository Layout)

[David Holmes]

Hi Andrew,

Dr Andrew John Hughes said the following on 03/22/11 08:09:
> The first part of a fix for SA is:
> 
> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/icedtea/jdk7/hotspot/rev/e452443363a7
> 
> This drops the 1.4 options and gets it building by fixing compareTo.
> The build doesn't turn on raw type warnings so there aren't any.
> Instead, you just get the message from javac telling you how to turn
> them on.

So from our perspective the main impediment to dropping 1.4 is that the 
SA code uses enum as an identifier and so needs to be updated to either 
change names or else change to Java 5 enums. How did you avoid this problem?

David