Re: Java 8 for Apache Ivy

2022-02-08 Thread Jaikiran Pai
+1. No objections. A while back I had thought of proposing this. The worry I had/have was that doing some of these refactoring might introduce hard to catch regressions in the core of Ivy itself (which I personally haven't fully had a grasp of yet). Having said that, targetting Ivy against Ja

Java 8 for Apache Ivy

2022-02-08 Thread Matt Benson
Java 7 public updates have ended nearly 7 years ago. Looking over the Ivy codebase, there appear to be many opportunities for modernization using Java 8 features (new APIs, interface default methods, etc.). Does anyone object to, or have other thoughts on this upgrade? Matt