I would rather us bump the major version number if we're going to start requiring users to use Java8.
On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 9:35 AM Daniel Kulp <dk...@apache.org> wrote: > > For master (targeting 2.17), I see we’re still setup for Java7. Would > it make sense to move to requiring Java8? We can certainly start taking > advantage of the new things in Java8, but there are also dependencies (like > Jetty) that now require Java8 and more and more of them will be requiring > that. (example: CXF 3.2 will be Java8 only as well) > > It sometimes makes back merging fixes to 2.16/2.15 tricky if you use Java8 > features, but that’s going to be a problem eventually anyway. > > Thoughts? > > -- > Daniel Kulp > dk...@apache.org - http://dankulp.com/blog > Talend Community Coder - http://coders.talend.com > >
