RE: gij as JRE 5

[Andrew Haley]

Jeroen Frijters writes:
 > Andrew Haley wrote:
 > > In which case it'll fail because of unresolved classes.  I don't see
 > > how refusing to recognize the new format will help.
 > 
 > Just this Saturday I got a message from someone who tried to run a 1.5
 > class on IKVM and got a ClassNotFoundException, because I had forgotten
 > to disable the 1.5 support. I don't know if this person would have
 > understood the ClassFormatError better

I greatly doubt it!  IMO a bytecode file format change is a really bad
way to distinguish library version changes.

Andrew.