On 14 January 2015 at 08:18, Martin Grotle Soukup <martin.grotle.sou...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > My two cents in favour of java 8: > > IIUC the next major release will break backwards compatibility and aims to > clean up the API. Taking a look at the release frequency of commons math > [1], it shows releases every 9-12 months (give or take). Given that the > next big release is a major one (4.0), this indicate that a release in 2016 > is a more likely target than in 2015. > > It might be the case that people use java 6 or 7 today, but the picture > might be a different one a year from now.
Does Java 8 offer any benefits to the user? i.e. if CM is released for Java 7 or Java 6 would that impact on people running Java 8? As a comparison, libraries that have not been updated to Java 5 generics do make a difference to Java 5+ users. But enhanced for loops have no direct impact on the user. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
