+1 for Java 8. Gary
On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 7:49 PM Ralph Goers <[email protected]> wrote: > I implemented a logging builder pattern in the Log4j API on the master > branch. I was able to do that in a backward compatible manner by using Java > 8 default methods. Although I could implement those default methods in > AbstractLogger in the release-2.x branch, the Logger interface would no > longer be backward compatible. In doing some investigation I found > https://www.baeldung.com/java-in-2018 < > https://www.baeldung.com/java-in-2018> which showed Java 7 usage to be > down to about 5%. > > I still don’t see us releasing 3.0 very soon because more modularization > work is required. So I am now wondering if we should just make the minimum > requirement for new Log4j 2 2.x releases to be Java 8. > > Thoughts? > > Ralph
