On Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 1:33 AM, Stefan Bodewig <bode...@apache.org> wrote:
> On 2018-06-05, Scott Langley wrote: > > > Have you decided whether you will now switch development to the 2.0 > branch > > The branch has basically been me tossing ideas around but it has never > gotten any traction inside the dev team. > > > or otherwise begin accepting Java 8 code in order to take advantage of > new > > language features? > > As others have said, we could do so in 1.x as well, if we really wanted > to. We've gone from Java5 to Java7 in several 1.x releases. > > Right now I'm not sure whether a move to Java8 would alienate any > existing users. Also, I'm not sure we'd benefit from Java8 much without > changing the API. > > Stefan > That makes sense to me. Another thought I have - which probably applies to any open source project - is that if the project is generally feature complete and stable, there is little to be gained from upgrading a required SDK. If the project is young and still-developing, then upgrading to a newer SDK in main stream use makes it more amenable to contributions from the wider developer community. Scott
