The beta is irrelevant IMO.

Gary

On Sat, Dec 5, 2020, 06:23 Michael Osipov <micha...@apache.org> wrote:

> Am 2020-12-04 um 20:24 schrieb Oleg Kalnichevski:
> > Folks
> >
> > I made a mistake developing TLS upgrade APIs in both HttpCore and
> > HttpClient, which I am not able to correct without changing some of the
> > existing interfaces. This mistake makes it very difficult to implement
> > HTTP/2 via HTTP/1.1 proxy in HttpClient.
> >
> > Now I could really make good use of default methods provided by Java
> > 1.8.
> >
> > I think it is time we upgraded to Java 1.8.
> >
> > Would anyone raise an objection?
>
> While I cannot judge on the amount of work necessary, here is my opinion:
>
> Yes, because it would open up new opportunities for us and contributors,
> but I doubt that someone will rewrite working already existing code.
> No, because we have entered beta phase and people don't expect such
> major changes in a beta phase. This has to be done before a branch is
> created or at most in an alpha phase.
>  From your POV, would it make sense to move current 5.1.x to 5.2.x,
> revert this Java 8 feature, complete 5.1.x and supersede 5.0.x after one
> more GA release with 5.1.x? So Java 7 users can plan an easy migration
> w/o changing too many things at once.
>
> Michael
>
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