On 7 June 2016 at 11:15, Torsten Curdt <tcu...@vafer.org> wrote: >> >> 1) I don't believe we should force users to migrate their code in >> order to support java 7/8. >> > > ...and that line of thinking is why it feels like commons projects are > effectively stuck in the past.
And maybe the ease of upgrade is why they are popular with users. > No one needs to upgrade. If your projects live in the past - there are bug > fix releases. That's not the case in general. Very few commons projects maintain parallel releases. > But if you want the new shiny then you as well should be OK to put in some > effort to do so. Why should the user have to do so? > Change should be easy - not just for our user but also for us. There are many more users than there are developers. > My 2 cents Suppose there are 10 developers on BCEL; that's 20 cents. There may be 1000 or more users. That's 20 dollars. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
