Re: [all] What versions of java do we support?

2019-03-22 Thread sebb
On Fri, 22 Mar 2019 at 21:27, Matt Sicker wrote: > > Ensuring projects are source compatible with 1.8 but buildable and > usable using Java 11 or whatever the latest release is at the time > (currently 12) seems like a good compromise for most of the libraries. > I wouldn't require 9+ in anything

Re: [all] What versions of java do we support?

2019-03-22 Thread Matt Sicker
Ensuring projects are source compatible with 1.8 but buildable and usable using Java 11 or whatever the latest release is at the time (currently 12) seems like a good compromise for most of the libraries. I wouldn't require 9+ in anything unless it's pointless for earlier releases of Java or if it'

Re: [codec] Java 8

2019-03-22 Thread sebb
On Fri, 22 Mar 2019 at 18:56, Gary Gregory wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 2:53 PM sebb wrote: > > > I see no reason to update to Java 8 unless continuing with Java 7 > > becomes a big hassle. > > > > Why penalise people stuck on Java 7 unnecessarily? > > > > I see it the other way around: Why

Re: [codec] Java 8

2019-03-22 Thread Gary Gregory
On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 2:53 PM sebb wrote: > I see no reason to update to Java 8 unless continuing with Java 7 > becomes a big hassle. > > Why penalise people stuck on Java 7 unnecessarily? > I see it the other way around: Why do we want to handcuff new development on a dead platforms? For new

Re: [codec] Java 8

2019-03-22 Thread sebb
I see no reason to update to Java 8 unless continuing with Java 7 becomes a big hassle. Why penalise people stuck on Java 7 unnecessarily? On Fri, 22 Mar 2019 at 15:31, Rob Tompkins wrote: > > That seems reasonable. > > > On Mar 22, 2019, at 11:23 AM, Gary Gregory wrote: > > > > This comes up f

RE: GSoC 19: Information pertaining to 'Lagged Fibonacci Generators'

2019-03-22 Thread Abhishek Dhadwal
>Well then, I guess that we consider the micro-tasks which I evoked in my previous message: Clone the repository and build the code. This is explained in more details here: http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-rng/developers.html Please try it, and then let us know how it went. I cloned t

Re: [codec] Java 8

2019-03-22 Thread Rob Tompkins
That seems reasonable. > On Mar 22, 2019, at 11:23 AM, Gary Gregory wrote: > > This comes up from time to time and I can only offer my usual "if you want > support for a dead version of Java, feel free to provide a PR" We can > always provide 1.12.1 for Java 7 security fixes or other fixes deem

Re: [codec] Java 8

2019-03-22 Thread Gary Gregory
This comes up from time to time and I can only offer my usual "if you want support for a dead version of Java, feel free to provide a PR" We can always provide 1.12.1 for Java 7 security fixes or other fixes deemed important enough. Gary On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 11:20 AM Rob Tompkins wrote: > +1

Re: [codec] Java 8

2019-03-22 Thread Rob Tompkins
+1, but there are considerable projects out there that would want us to maintain backwards compatibility with Java 7. > On Mar 22, 2019, at 11:12 AM, Gary Gregory wrote: > > Hi All, > > Now that Codec 1.12 is out, I plan on updating from Java 7 to Java 8. > > Gary --

[codec] Java 8

2019-03-22 Thread Gary Gregory
Hi All, Now that Codec 1.12 is out, I plan on updating from Java 7 to Java 8. Gary

Re: GSoC 19: Information pertaining to 'Lagged Fibonacci Generators'

2019-03-22 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Hello. Le ven. 22 mars 2019 à 14:48, Abhishek Dhadwal a écrit : > > Dear Sir, > >I don't understand what you mean be "screening tests". Sorry. > Certain organisations had held certain micro tasks to be performed by > students in order to increase their chances of selection for the project. I >

RE: GSoC 19: Information pertaining to 'Lagged Fibonacci Generators'

2019-03-22 Thread Abhishek Dhadwal
Dear Sir, >I don't understand what you mean be "screening tests". Sorry. Certain organisations had held certain micro tasks to be performed by students in order to increase their chances of selection for the project. I was asking about those tasks in reference to our current project. >Overall, t

Re: [LAZY][VOTE] Release Apache Commons Parent 48 based on RC1

2019-03-22 Thread Rob Tompkins
> On Mar 22, 2019, at 8:40 AM, Gary Gregory wrote: > > +1 > > Testing RC tag checkout. > > Not a blocker, the changes.xml file needs a release date and description. Doh. Thanks. > > Using: > > mvn clean package site > > On: > > Apache Maven 3.6.0 (97c98ec64a1fdfee7767ce5ffb20918da4f719

Re: [LAZY][VOTE] Release Apache Commons Parent 48 based on RC1

2019-03-22 Thread Gary Gregory
+1 Testing RC tag checkout. Not a blocker, the changes.xml file needs a release date and description. Using: mvn clean package site On: Apache Maven 3.6.0 (97c98ec64a1fdfee7767ce5ffb20918da4f719f3; 2018-10-24T14:41:47-04:00) Maven home: C:\Java\apache-maven-3.6.0\bin\.. Java version: 1.8.0_20

Re: [VOTE] Release Apache Commons BCEL 6.3.1 based on RC1

2019-03-22 Thread Gary Gregory
My +1 Gary On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 10:26 PM Gary Gregory wrote: > We have fixed quite a few bugs and added some significant enhancements > since Apache Commons BCEL 6.3 was released, so I would like to release > Apache Commons BCEL 6.3.1. > > Apache Commons BCEL 6.3.1 RC1 is available for revie

Re: [all] What versions of java do we support?

2019-03-22 Thread Gary Gregory
On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 10:29 PM Rob Tompkins wrote: > > > > On Mar 21, 2019, at 10:22 PM, Bernd Eckenfels > wrote: > > > > Nearly all vendors I have seen announced to follow voluntarily or > commercial guaranteed the OpenJDK LTS versions (11, some 8) (Redhat, > adoptopenjdk, Azul, ojdkbuild, sa

Re: GSoC 19: Information pertaining to 'Lagged Fibonacci Generators'

2019-03-22 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Hi. Le ven. 22 mars 2019 à 08:28, Abhishek Dhadwal a écrit : > > > Dear sir, > > >>But first things first: Have you set up a programming environment for > making your experiments? > I have IntelliJ IDEA community edition along with Netbeans 8.2 with Java > 8u191 installed. > For repository purpo

RE: GSoC 19: Information pertaining to 'Lagged Fibonacci Generators'

2019-03-22 Thread Abhishek Dhadwal
Dear sir, >>But first things first: Have you set up a programming environment for making your experiments? I have IntelliJ IDEA community edition along with Netbeans 8.2 with Java 8u191 installed. For repository purposes, I’m using Github Desktop. Any other software I should install for this u