On 01/08/2015 12:34 PM, Gilles wrote: > Hi. > > Raising this issue once again. > Are we going to upgrade the requirement for the next major release? >
[ ] Java 5 [x] Java 6 [x] Java 7 [ ] Java 8 [ ] Java 9 A while ago I thought that it would be cool to switch to Java 7/8 for some of the nice new features (mainly fork/join, lambda expressions and diamond operator, the rest is more or less unimportant for math imho). But after some thoughts I think they are not really needed for the following reasons: * the main focus of math is on developing high-quality, well tested and documented algorithms, the existing language features are more than enough for this * coming up with multi-threaded algorithms might be appealing but it is also hard work and I wonder if it really makes sense in the times of projects like mahout / hadoop / ... which aim for even better scalability * staying at Java 6/7 does not block users to use math in a Java 8 environment if wanted just my 2cents Thomas --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
