Re: [ease-dev] EASE no longer compiles against Oxygen

[Christian Pontesegger <christian.pontesegger@xxxxxx>]

>  
> Generally building against new stuff and running it on an old
> framework can lead to nasty runtime problems (missing methods, class
> hierachy problems). The other way round is normally better.
> Thats why we build against Oxygen at the moment.

You are right, the way we build we cannot guarantee things to work on
older platforms. Then on the other hand sticking to a target platform
based on Oxygen or similar old platforms blocks us from adding new
features that depend on newer targets
(eg the fresh UI builder needs 2019-06)

With the current manpower the decision is to keep the development as
close as possible to the eclipse release train, possibly sacrificing
compatibility with older versions.

best regards
Christian