Am 2020-01-19 um 15:03 schrieb Gary Gregory:
I propose that the upcoming HttpCore and HttpClient version 5.0 should
require Java 8, not 7.
- This will allow us to use java.time.Duration instead of cooking up our
own TimeValue. Even if we want to keep the TimeValue and Timeout
abstraction, they can implemented using a java.time.Duration.
- This will allow us to use java.util.function instead of cooking up our
own org.apache.hc.core5.function
- This will avoid all sorts of ugly if and when we do adopt Java 8 within
5.x as surely we should offer Duration APIs where we now use TimeValue.
Same for org.apache.hc.core5.function.
- This will allow us to use lambdas where appropriate.
I am not totally against this, but do you really think that
stop-the-world and rewrite a lot of code for the sake of Java 8 will
help us? Will will throw us at least three months or more back.
I would really get back to my proposal at GH: Move on with 5.0, keep it
for a year or so and start working on 6.0 in Spring with Java 8.
Since we have learned what we can do better in the future, let's keep it
for the future.
- Java 7 is deader than a doornail and is a barrier to entry for
contributors used to more modern Java versions.
We have worse problem than sticking to Java 7, imho.
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