Re: AW: Java8 utilities

2016-09-21 Thread Gary Gregory
I do not think we should talk about future plans in the release notes for 3.5. Gary On Sep 21, 2016 2:58 PM, "Stian Soiland-Reyes" wrote: > +1 - could we even mention this in the release notes for 3.5 and 3.6? > > Something like: > > > Commons Lang 3.5.x is planned to be the last minor version

Re: AW: Java8 utilities

2016-09-21 Thread Stian Soiland-Reyes
+1 - could we even mention this in the release notes for 3.5 and 3.6? Something like: > Commons Lang 3.5.x is planned to be the last minor version series that > support Java 6; future versions will target Java 7 and Java 8. > Commons Lang 3.6.x is planned to be the last minor version series tha

Re: AW: Java8 utilities

2016-09-21 Thread Gary Gregory
I'd like to propose an orderly migration assume BC is preserved: - Release 3.5 RC as scheduled this weekend - Release 3.6 with Java 7 changes - Release 3.7 with Java 8 changes This will give us an opportunity to do some Java 7 work and put that out without leaving Java 7-only folks out of the pic

Re: AW: Java8 utilities

2016-09-21 Thread Stian Soiland-Reyes
+1 to be brave and make Lang 3.6 be Java 8, so Lambda helpers can join here. I have a couple of Stream helpers that could also fit in there. On 21 September 2016 at 18:19, Gary Gregory wrote: > On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 8:04 AM, Benedikt Ritter wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Jörg Schaible schrieb am Mi.

Re: AW: Java8 utilities

2016-09-21 Thread Gary Gregory
On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 8:04 AM, Benedikt Ritter wrote: > Hi, > > Jörg Schaible schrieb am Mi., 21. Sep. > 2016 um 16:55 Uhr: > > > Jan Matèrne (jhm) wrote: > > > > > > > >> We could also have Lamda utility classes in [lang], the classes would > > >> target Java 8 while the other classes would r

Re: AW: Java8 utilities

2016-09-21 Thread Gilles
On Wed, 21 Sep 2016 15:04:12 +, Benedikt Ritter wrote: Hi, Jörg Schaible schrieb am Mi., 21. Sep. 2016 um 16:55 Uhr: Jan Matèrne (jhm) wrote: > >> We could also have Lamda utility classes in [lang], the classes would >> target Java 8 while the other classes would remain at the Java 6

Re: AW: Java8 utilities

2016-09-21 Thread Benedikt Ritter
Hi, Jörg Schaible schrieb am Mi., 21. Sep. 2016 um 16:55 Uhr: > Jan Matèrne (jhm) wrote: > > > > >> We could also have Lamda utility classes in [lang], the classes would > >> target Java 8 while the other classes would remain at the Java 6 level > >> (this implies compiling the classes separatel

Re: AW: Java8 utilities

2016-09-21 Thread Jörg Schaible
Jan Matèrne (jhm) wrote: > >> We could also have Lamda utility classes in [lang], the classes would >> target Java 8 while the other classes would remain at the Java 6 level >> (this implies compiling the classes separately and recombining them in >> the final jar). > > From a users point of vi

AW: Java8 utilities

2016-09-21 Thread jhm
> We could also have Lamda utility classes in [lang], the classes would > target Java 8 while the other classes would remain at the Java 6 level > (this implies compiling the classes separately and recombining them in > the final jar). >From a users point of view I would search in commons-lang f