Re: [IO] Update to Java 8 [WAS Re: regarding IO-597]

2019-01-12 Thread sebb
On Sat, 12 Jan 2019 at 15:42, John Patrick wrote: > > Personally as a consumer/user I wouldn't expect a minor update to bump > the min java version required, I would expect a major version number > bump. > > Also I think all commons projects should be bumped to Java 8 asap, as > those on java 5, 6

Re: [IO] Update to Java 8 [WAS Re: regarding IO-597]

2019-01-12 Thread John Patrick
Personally as a consumer/user I wouldn't expect a minor update to bump the min java version required, I would expect a major version number bump. Also I think all commons projects should be bumped to Java 8 asap, as those on java 5, 6 or 7 are probably happy with the current versions and would onl

Re: [DRAFT] Board Report January 2019

2019-01-12 Thread Gary Gregory
On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 12:04 PM Matt Sicker wrote: > Would you like to mention the gitbox migration? > Done and thank you for the reminder! I just submitted the report for the next board meeting. Gary > > On Fri, 11 Jan 2019 at 09:05, Otto Fowler wrote: > > > > That works, thanks > > > > >

[IO] Update to Java 8 [WAS Re: regarding IO-597]

2019-01-12 Thread Gary Gregory
I am OK with updating Commons IO to Java 8 for release 2.7. Others? Gary On Sat, Jan 12, 2019 at 6:54 AM Arvind Venugopal wrote: > Hello, > > This is regarding the JIRA issue IO-597. I am not sure if this has to be > taken up because the fix for this bug would need Java 8 which would be > brea

regarding IO-597

2019-01-12 Thread Arvind Venugopal
Hello, This is regarding the JIRA issue IO-597. I am not sure if this has to be taken up because the fix for this bug would need Java 8 which would be breaking all existing code(using Java 7 or earlier) which uses this library. Thanks Arvind