Re: [COMPRESS] Java 7- > 8

2020-08-18 Thread Gary Gregory
After 10 days, as I there was only positive feedback, I did it. Gary On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 3:23 AM Peter Lee wrote: > +1 for this. > > But it is not because of the lambdas(personally I do like the lambdas, but > it is not a reason that could convince me to update the JDK). > The OpenJDK7 is n

Re: [COMPRESS] Java 7- > 8

2020-08-12 Thread Peter Lee
+1 for this. But it is not because of the lambdas(personally I do like the lambdas, but it is not a reason that could convince me to update the JDK). The OpenJDK7 is not supported basing on OpenJDK life cycle police any more recently(EOS since June, 2020) - and this is why I think should update

Re: [COMPRESS] Java 7- > 8

2020-08-11 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
> > On Sat, 8 Aug 2020 at 13:05, Gary Gregory wrote: > > > > > > Hi All: > > > If we can update to Java 8, I can drop some code duplication very > > cleanly. Go for it. -- Look, that's why there's rules, understand? So that you think before you break 'em. -- (Terry Pratchett, Thief of Ti

Re: [COMPRESS] Java 7- > 8

2020-08-11 Thread Xeno Amess
...I always wonder, is there really being people who both: 1. need to upgrade their library to the latest version. 2. need to stay on java 6/7 In other words, if there be people still using java 6/7 today in 2020, I just think they don't want to upgrade libraries either. So I will put a +1 every ti

Re: [COMPRESS] Java 7- > 8

2020-08-11 Thread Gary Gregory
On Sat, Aug 8, 2020 at 4:07 PM Eitan Adler wrote: > On Sat, 8 Aug 2020 at 13:05, Gary Gregory wrote: > > > > Hi All: > > If we can update to Java 8, I can drop some code duplication very > cleanly. > > +1 to moving to Java 8. > Anyone else? Gary > > > -- > Eitan Adler > > ---

Re: [COMPRESS] Java 7- > 8

2020-08-08 Thread Eitan Adler
On Sat, 8 Aug 2020 at 13:05, Gary Gregory wrote: > > Hi All: > If we can update to Java 8, I can drop some code duplication very cleanly. +1 to moving to Java 8. -- Eitan Adler - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@common

[COMPRESS] Java 7- > 8

2020-08-08 Thread Gary Gregory
Hi All: I reimplement the Archiver class using Java NIO tree walking instead of the custom file system traversal that was there because (1) it was painful when dealing with large directories and calls to File.listFiles() and (2) I want to use Path objects. The class has cruft still, due to the fa