Re: [POOL][DBCP] Release plans

2017-03-06 Thread Matt Sicker
For Pool, I'm not exactly sure why we need a Java 6 compatible implementation for the next minor version (2.5). We've had the EOL discussion before, and even Java 7 is at that point. The only reason I'd look at updating DBCP to use Java 8 is to support JDBC 4.2 <

Re: [POOL][DBCP] Release plans

2017-03-06 Thread Romain Manni-Bucau
2017-03-06 10:06 GMT+01:00 Mark Thomas : > On 05/03/17 18:21, Matt Sicker wrote: > > I'm also thinking we might want to upgrade to Java 7 for pool 2.5 as dbcp > > 2.x has required it from the beginning. I'm not exactly sure if anything > > JDBC changed in Java 8 to warrant an

Re: [POOL][DBCP] Release plans

2017-03-06 Thread Mark Thomas
On 05/03/17 18:21, Matt Sicker wrote: > I'm also thinking we might want to upgrade to Java 7 for pool 2.5 as dbcp > 2.x has required it from the beginning. I'm not exactly sure if anything > JDBC changed in Java 8 to warrant an upgrade to Java 8 for dbcp 2.3, but > it's also worth mentioning if

Re: [POOL][DBCP] Release plans

2017-03-05 Thread Gary Gregory
I am +1 to making Java 7 the hard minimum for [pool] and [dbcp] on the next minor release. I'd love: - to see (and use) a fresh release of [pool] followed by [dbcp] - update to Java 7 Gary On Sun, Mar 5, 2017 at 10:21 AM, Matt Sicker wrote: > I'm also thinking we might want

Re: [POOL][DBCP] Release plans

2017-03-05 Thread Matt Sicker
I'm also thinking we might want to upgrade to Java 7 for pool 2.5 as dbcp 2.x has required it from the beginning. I'm not exactly sure if anything JDBC changed in Java 8 to warrant an upgrade to Java 8 for dbcp 2.3, but it's also worth mentioning if needed. On 5 March 2017 at 11:59, Pascal

Re: [POOL][DBCP] Release plans

2017-03-05 Thread Pascal Schumacher
Great new. :) As far as I remember there were various request for DBCP 2.2 (and we would like to update to pool 2.4.3 at work). Thank you very much, Pascal Am 05.03.2017 um 18:30 schrieb Matt Sicker: I've started a lazy vote to migrate Pool to Git. After that, I'd like to take a whack at

Re: [POOL][DBCP] Release plans

2017-03-05 Thread Gary Gregory
Great news Matt. Thank you for driving this effort. Gary On Mar 5, 2017 6:30 PM, "Matt Sicker" wrote: > I've started a lazy vote to migrate Pool to Git. After that, I'd like to > take a whack at starting a release candidate for pool 2.4.3. After that, we > can upgrade DBCP to