I updated the POM to Java 7 in Git master. Gary
On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 6:48 AM, Stian Soiland-Reyes <st...@apache.org> wrote: > I don't think we should need that strong arguments to go to Java 7. > Remember being "stuck in the past" with older syntax also puts off > potential new contributors and eventually causes code rot. E.g. > Commons Compress is very InputStream-centric, and so a > try-with-resources could be quite good to simplify the code - arguably > mainly the tests. > > Being able to upgrade ZipFile to support SeekableByteChannel and > java.nio.file.Path sounds like a good motivation to me. > > > We should still be more careful about upgrading to Java 8, but I think > Java 7 should be the expected minimum. > > On 24 June 2016 at 14:14, Stefan Bodewig <bode...@apache.org> wrote: > > On 2016-06-24, Gary Gregory wrote: > > > >> Hi, > > > >> I was looking at some compress code that I wanted to update to > >> switch-on-string but realized the code is still on Java 6. > > > > "still" means 1.12 has been the first release to require Java 6 - 1.11 > > was at Java 5 :-) > > > >> OK to bump to Java 7? > > > > If it is useful for us, yes. > > > > try-with-resources is nice but wouldn't convince me. SeekableByteChannel > > to make ZipFile and SevenZFile usable for non-Files would. > > > > Stefan > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > > > > > -- > Stian Soiland-Reyes > Apache Taverna (incubating), Apache Commons > http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9842-9718 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > -- E-Mail: garydgreg...@gmail.com | ggreg...@apache.org Java Persistence with Hibernate, Second Edition <http://www.manning.com/bauer3/> JUnit in Action, Second Edition <http://www.manning.com/tahchiev/> Spring Batch in Action <http://www.manning.com/templier/> Blog: http://garygregory.wordpress.com Home: http://garygregory.com/ Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory
