On Mon, 2015-11-23 at 10:08 +0100, Michael Osipov wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 3:10 PM, Jon Moore <j...@apache.org> wrote: > > > > > On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 1:56 PM, Michael Osipov <micha...@apache.org> > > > 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. > > Gary, > > if you have seen those screencaps from Devoxx in Belgium you would know that > Java 9 brings > the most tremendous changes since the inception of Java (citing Mark > Reinhold). This is > too much changes for just one release. > > Moreover, I highly against moving to Java 8 right now becuase too many people > have constraints > to move to a new major Java version. Withhelding them from upgrade to 5.0 > just because of that > would create a chicken-end-egg problem. > > Given that this project has only few active developers, we should rather > focus on onther issues. > > For instance, at Maven there are probably working ten developers, yet we have > chosen to stick > to Java 7 for broad compat. > > Michael >
Folks I think it was probably a little more than year ago that Gradle folks said they might have to consider forking HttpClient if we had moved to Java 6 too soon. HC is a low level library. We risk losing a substantial user base if we get too carried away with new Java features. I loathe having to go back to Java 7 from Java 8 every time work on HttpClient. Really. But let's revisit this decision in a few month time. We might be forced to upgrade due to HTTP/2 TLS requirements. Oleg --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@hc.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@hc.apache.org
