On Wed, 16 Jan 2019 at 15:14, Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 11:30 AM Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > I'd be in favor of upgrading to Java 8. It would certainly make
> > porting my Jenkins deleteRecursive family of methods back upstream
> > easier (lambdas mainly). It would also allow for adding functional
> > APIs for IO (which may also require some checked versions of
> > java.util.function).
> >
>
> The question for me becomes: should we release 2.7 now with Java 7 or just
> switch to Java 8 and release 2.7 when we get around to it. This issue is
> availability of a release manager. For me, switching to Java 8 now is OK.

Unless there is a clear need to switch to Java 8, why force it on
downstream users who may not be ready to upgrade?

> Gary
>
>
> >
> > On Sat, 12 Jan 2019 at 16:37, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Sat, 12 Jan 2019 at 15:42, John Patrick <nhoj.patr...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Personally as a consumer/user I wouldn't expect a minor update to bump
> > > > the min java version required, I would expect a major version number
> > > > bump.
> > > >
> > > > Also I think all commons projects should be bumped to Java 8 asap, as
> > > > those on java 5, 6 or 7 are probably happy with the current versions
> > > > and would only be upgrading for bug fixes and security reasons.
> > >
> > > However, if a commons component updates to Java 8 and then needs a bug
> > > fix, all those on Java 7 or below who need the bug fix will be forced
> > > to update Java as well as updating the commons component.
> > > Is that such a good idea?
> > >
> > > > Java 8 was released nearly 5 years ago, Java 7 was released 8 years
> > > > ago, people complained about Java being slow, now Java has become
> > > > rapid it seams the frameworks need to speed up.
> > >
> > > Huh?
> > >
> > > If people upgrade to the latest (faster) version of Java, they can
> > > still use Commons components that have an earlier minimum version.
> > >
> > > So I don't see how changing the minimum version of Java for a Commons
> > > component helps here.
> > >
> > > > Just my view after coding Java for 20 years.
> > > >
> > > > John
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Sat, 12 Jan 2019 at 13:43, Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > I am OK with updating Commons IO to Java 8 for release 2.7.
> > > > >
> > > > > Others?
> > > > >
> > > > > Gary
> > > > >
> > > > > On Sat, Jan 12, 2019 at 6:54 AM Arvind Venugopal <
> > arvind.compe...@gmail.com>
> > > > > wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > Hello,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > This is regarding the JIRA issue IO-597. I am not sure if this has
> > to be
> > > > > > taken up because the fix for this bug would need Java 8 which
> > would be
> > > > > > breaking all existing code(using Java 7 or earlier) which uses this
> > > > > > library.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Thanks
> > > > > > Arvind
> > > > > >
> > > >
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