Very good Ignasi! We really need to move to Java8 About the issues, just reading them quickly, i think this one should be simple since i'm familiar with that code https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JCLOUDS-1491
Daniel Estévez danielestevez.com ---- On Mon, 06 May 2019 04:55:43 -0400 Ignasi Barrera <n...@apache.org> wrote ---- > Hi! > > Now that we have an agreement that jclouds-karaf and jclouds-cli will be > transferred to the Apache Karaf project, I think we are unblocked to > complete the JDK 8 support (initial issue here [1]). > > So... let's do that? It should also help unblock several issues we have > about using old versions of some dependencies that require Java 8 now at > least. > > I would like to coordinate some effort to merge the JDK8 support and make a > new major release with that as the minimum requirement, along with a bump > to Guava [2,3] and Guice [4], and probably Gson too [5] (I propose to just > be pragmatical and address 3 as proposed int he first comment, just taking > the code we need and copying it). > > > I think it is time for now and having that shouldn't be a huge effort. > > WDYT about prioritizing this, and have a new major with these issues and > without karaf and the CLI? > > > Cheers! > > I. > > > [1] https://github.com/jclouds/jclouds/pull/1197 > [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JCLOUDS-1491 > [3] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JCLOUDS-1333 > [3] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JCLOUDS-1498 > [4] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JCLOUDS-1498 > [5] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JCLOUDS-1166 >
