On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 9:39 AM Stefan Bodewig <bode...@apache.org> wrote:
> On 2019-04-16, Gary Gregory wrote: > > > Based on a recent JIRA, it seems like using Java 8 in [compress] would be > > helpful. > > I'd +1 that it bumping the dependency turned out to be really > useful. I'm not convinced, yet. > > > Plus, it's 2019 and Java 12 is out. > > As long as using Java 7 doesn't hurt us, I don't see any reason to > update. > Using old dead versions of Java turns off potential contributors IMO. You have to go dig around and install an archived version of the JDK which Oracle has EOLed. Not only that but you can't use the more modern features and APIs. Gary > > Stefan >
