michael-o edited a comment on issue #189: Add and use TimeValue await(), awaitTermination() and get() methods. URL: https://github.com/apache/httpcomponents-core/pull/189#issuecomment-575344260 @garydgregory There are several issue here, I will go in brief, but this discussion should really be on the dev list. 1. The class version freeze happened when 5.0 was started to be developed. This is a fair deal for everyone to have some long term planning. Yes, Java 7 has been overcome by events. Always consider that this is not a toy project. A LOT of people and software depend on it. I can show you 10 000+ users in my company using HttpClient 4.4.x every single day. 2. Generally, HttpComponents major release takes a long time due to the complexity/amount of code, little community (3-5 people) and being a backend library people only care when it is broken. 3. Java 8 is far not EOL, only Oracle's binary JDK is. There are plenty alternatives until 2025 for Java 8 on various platforms. What we could do is consider 5.0 as an interim release, fixing deficiencies of the 4.x line which will live for a year and then we make another baseline improvement, fix 5.x deficiencies and move to 6.0 with Java 8. Our turnarounds are slow, but this is not a bad thing. Moving fast does not mean you are delivering quality. As a side note, I don't understand the Operations approach either.
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