> On Dec 15, 2019, at 2:44 PM, Gary Gregory <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> All good thoughts.
>
> I suspect that now that 2.x is on Java 8 there are some clean ups we will
> want to do. What comes to mind immediately is deprecating our functional
> interfaces in favor of the ones in java.util.function. Then we can drop our
> custom functional interfaces in the 3.0 branch (if that did not already
> happen.)
Although I am not opposed, is there any benefit to that? It just adds more
binary incompatibilities. Although some are necessary I’d like to keep the
upgrade from 2.x to 3.0 as easy as possible.
>
> At work, we are looking to move Java 11 as customers are uneasy running on
> an EOL version like Java 8 (I know, I know, commercial support). As far as
> making Java 11 the base requirement, we are somewhat waiting on IBM to make
> Java 11 available on z/OS (https://developer.ibm.com/javasdk/support/zos/)
>
> So overall my thoughts are to make use of Java 8 in 2.x and seeing how that
> allows 3.0 to be cleaned up.
I don’t understand this statement. Are you agreeing that 3.0 should move to
Java 11 or just stating that you want 3.0 to be cleaned up?
Ralph
