On 2014-01-25, Damjan Jovanovic wrote: > On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 6:06 PM, Stefan Bodewig <bode...@apache.org> wrote: >> On 2013-12-30, Stefan Bodewig wrote:
>>> Compress 1.x is at Java5, personally I don't think Java6 would give us >>> any benefits. I don't know about the other improvements in NIO2 but the >>> java.nio.file package looks useful for compress. >> In the meantime it has been pointed out to me that Android doesn't >> support NIO2. I can imagine Android apps using Compress so this looks >> like a good reason to hold back requiring Java7. > It's already possible to use most Java 7 language level features and > compile to Android (https://github.com/yareally/Java7-on-Android). It > would also possible to reimplement the needed classes (which is only > SeekableByteChannel?) in nio2 using some kind of wrapper on top of > Android's java.nio. It would also be a part java.nio.file.attribute, but we can re-invent that as well, if needed. What you suggest could work as long as we are careful and never assume FileChannel implements SeekableByteChannel but use some custom File => SeekableByteChannel code using Java7 if available - I'm just afraid we'll forget to be careful. > We could still use Java 7 / nio2 and then make a plan for Android > releases. Thanks for volunteering ;-) Stefan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
