On 20 Jun 2014 16:37, "Gilles" <gil...@harfang.homelinux.org> wrote: > > On Fri, 20 Jun 2014 16:18:08 +0200, Thomas Neidhart wrote: >> >> Java 5 is already eol. Anybody still using it is certainly in maintenance >> mode thus adding now a feature that is available in java 6 does not make >> any sense. > > > This a strong statement in a forum where it has _always_ been > indicated that no post-Java-5 feature could be used.
These two are completely different things. Not using more recent java features was done in order to still support users that are stuck with java 5 but want/have to use commons. Duplicating java 6 features in 2014 is pointless. What is the expected userbase of this feature? New users will certainly have adopted more recent versions of java and anybody still using java 5 and having a need for this will hopefully have implemented it already in his own codebase. > > The right question, to be asked again (in case the answer will be > different from all the other times) is: Is Commons Math still to > support Java 5 ? > > If not, to which version do we switch to? 6, 7, 8? Thats another question to be asked, but orthogonal to the above. > > Gilles > >> > [...] > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org >
