Hi, We are talking dead Java 7 here, Android or not, Java 10 just came out. It looks like Android supports some Java 8 at least: https://developer.android.com/studio/write/java8-support.html
If someone has a burning desire to maintain a Java 7 branch, go for it. I do think that in 2018, we need to move off Java 7 for main Java development... Gary On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 12:05 PM, Oliver Heger <oliver.he...@oliver-heger.de > wrote: > > > Am 29.03.2018 um 15:54 schrieb Gary Gregory: > > Done. > > > > Gary > > > > On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 2:21 PM, Jochen Wiedmann < > jochen.wiedm...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > >> +1 > >> > >> > >> On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 9:06 PM, Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> > >> wrote: > >>> Hi All: > >>> > >>> I say it is time to update Commons Configuration to Java 8 and support > >> the > >>> types in java.time. > >>> > >>> Thoughts? > > Supporting these new types is certainly desirable. > > As the conversion mechanism is designed to be extensible, maybe this can > be achieved without increasing the minimum Java requirement for the core > library: We could add a module (making [configuration] to a multi-module > project) that just contains a converter for new Java 8 types. This > module would then obviously require Java 8. > > The API for installing this converter probably would need some tweaking > to make the extension of the conversion mechanism more convenient. But > this should be doable. The user guide [1] describes this mechanism and > how to add custom converters. > > While I am not strictly against switching to Java 8, I fear that there > are still users who have to stick to version 1.7, for instance on Android. > > Oliver > > [1] > http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-configuration/ > userguide/howto_basicfeatures.html#Data_type_conversions > > >>> > >>> Gary > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > >> > >> > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > >