On 6/20/14, 9:56 AM, Thomas Neidhart wrote: > On 06/20/2014 05:30 PM, Gilles wrote: >> On Fri, 20 Jun 2014 16:57:41 +0200, Thomas Neidhart wrote: >>> On 20 Jun 2014 16:37, "Gilles" <gil...@harfang.homelinux.org> wrote: >>>> On Fri, 20 Jun 2014 16:18:08 +0200, Thomas Neidhart wrote: >>>>> Java 5 is already eol. Anybody still using it is certainly in >>>>> maintenance >>>>> mode thus adding now a feature that is available in java 6 does not >>>>> make >>>>> any sense. >>>> >>>> This a strong statement in a forum where it has _always_ been >>>> indicated that no post-Java-5 feature could be used. >>> These two are completely different things. >>> >>> Not using more recent java features was done in order to still support >>> users that are stuck with java 5 but want/have to use commons. >>> >>> Duplicating java 6 features in 2014 is pointless. What is the expected >>> userbase of this feature? >> Commons Math itself. And this was the real purpose of duplicating Java 6: >> no user ever asked for those methods in MathArrays. They were implemented >> for the sole reason that CM could not contain calls to methods not yet >> available in Java 5. [See the "pom.xml" of Commons Math.] >> >>> New users will certainly have adopted more recent >>> versions of java and anybody still using java 5 and having a need for >>> this >>> will hopefully have implemented it already in his own codebase. >> This is completely unrelated to the issue. > Looking at the original JIRA issue (MATH-1130) it was not clear that > this is actually related to MATH-1120 and sounded like a user request to > support this functionality. > > As this functionality is used by Commons Math itself the inclusion is of > course ok. > > Regarding the supported versions: > > * for the 3.x branch I would stick with java 5 > * for the new 4.x branch I would at least switch to java 7
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