[news.eclipse.tools.jdt] Re: Preference setting to ignore @Override sett

[Markus Keller <markus_keller@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2009-08-30 22:29, Wim Jongman wrote:
> When source code has to be ported back to 1.5 from 1.6 (e.g. to be compatible 
> with OSx) then there is a lot of work in removing the @override annotations 
> for implemented interface methods. It would really help if there was a 
> preference setting to ignore those overrides.

We can't remove the errors in 1.5, since they are mandated by the Java 
Language Specification.

> I was ready filing a bug for this but I thought I ask here first. 

We could add a Clean Up on the "Unnecessary Code" page e.g. "Remove 
unsupported @Override". I filed 
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=288623 for that.

Markus