Hi! Now that we have an agreement that jclouds-karaf and jclouds-cli will be transferred to the Apache Karaf project, I think we are unblocked to complete the JDK 8 support (initial issue here [1]).
So... let's do that? It should also help unblock several issues we have about using old versions of some dependencies that require Java 8 now at least. I would like to coordinate some effort to merge the JDK8 support and make a new major release with that as the minimum requirement, along with a bump to Guava [2,3] and Guice [4], and probably Gson too [5] (I propose to just be pragmatical and address 3 as proposed int he first comment, just taking the code we need and copying it). I think it is time for now and having that shouldn't be a huge effort. WDYT about prioritizing this, and have a new major with these issues and without karaf and the CLI? Cheers! I. [1] https://github.com/jclouds/jclouds/pull/1197 [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JCLOUDS-1491 [3] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JCLOUDS-1333 [3] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JCLOUDS-1498 [4] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JCLOUDS-1498 [5] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JCLOUDS-1166
