On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 3:10 PM, Jon Moore <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 1:56 PM, Michael Osipov <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Am 2015-11-21 um 19:52 schrieb Gary Gregory: > > > >> +1. > >> > >> I would not mind using Java 8 too. > >> > > > > Believe that is too early. We are using a company-wide, Eclipse RCP-based > > product which is on Eclipse 3.4/3.6 and still HttpClient 3.x. I highly > > doubt that the dev team will jump on e4 and Java 8 features. > > Java 7 is a good base line. >
By the time, HC5 comes out, Java 9 might be out ;-) I think it is time to move to Java 8, which might also attract fresh blood to the project. My 2c, Gary > > > Java 7 is already end-of-life, as of April 2015. Given that part of the > idea of starting version 5.0 is to be able to remove deprecated items and > general cleanup, it would seem prudent to me to at least *start* HC 5.0 > with a non-EOL Java version. In addition, the Streams API that were added > to in java.util.streams might be very useful especially in an HTTP/2.0 > implementation, although that might be a separate discussion. > > I will also note that you should weigh my opinion against the fact that I > haven't had a lot of time for contributing recently... > > Jon > -- E-Mail: [email protected] | [email protected] Java Persistence with Hibernate, Second Edition <http://www.manning.com/bauer3/> JUnit in Action, Second Edition <http://www.manning.com/tahchiev/> Spring Batch in Action <http://www.manning.com/templier/> Blog: http://garygregory.wordpress.com Home: http://garygregory.com/ Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory
