Commons lang could commit to providing patch releases/bug fixes in a maintenance series of the existing line for that purpose. Then it'd be totally fine to do whatever they liked in the new version with major incremented.
On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 3:20 AM, Robert Scholte <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, 25 Sep 2016 16:11:22 +0200, Benedikt Ritter <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hello Robert, >> >> just watched your JavaOne presentation. Very interesting :-) >> > > thanks! > > >> Robert Scholte <[email protected]> schrieb am So., 25. Sep. 2016 um >> 13:48 Uhr: >> >> It depends. If you are changing existing methods to only work with Java8, >>> that would be a problem (read: we cannot upgrade). If you have both Java8 >>> and pre-Java8 implementations, either by reflection or proper >>> encapsulated >>> code it'll work for us. >>> We do it ourselves too[1] >>> >>> for us it would be nice if the target is still 1.7 >>> >>> if ( isJava8() ) >>> { // do java8 stuff } >>> else >>> { do classic stuff } ) >>> >>> if the java8 stuff uses reflection, you can build it with JDK7, otherwise >>> you must use JDK8 >>> >>> >> We're thinking about adding APIs for dealing with e.g. Functions. So >> maven.compiler.source and maven.compiler.target would be 1.8. This would >> require downstream user to also compile with Java 8. If I understand >> correctly, this would be a problem for Maven, right? >> > > As long as we say that users can run Maven with Java7, then yes it would > block us from upgrading. Is that a problem? Maybe, as long as we don't hit > a bug commons-lang. > > Robert > > > >> Regards, >> Benedikt >> >> >> >>> Robert >>> >>> [1] >>> >>> https://maven.apache.org/shared/maven-shared-utils/xref/org/ >>> apache/maven/shared/utils/io/FileUtils.html#L831 >>> >>> On Sun, 25 Sep 2016 09:48:56 +0200, Benedikt Ritter <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>> > Hi, >>> > >>> > at the Apache Commons Project we're currently discussing where we can >>> > host >>> > utility classes for working with the features introduced in Java 8. One >>> > proposal add this to Commons Lang [1]. Since Apache Maven makes use of >>> > Commons Lang, I would like to know whether it would be a problem for >>> you >>> > if >>> > Commons Lang would require Java 8. >>> > >>> > Thank you, >>> > Benedikt >>> > >>> > [1] http://markmail.org/message/ecxc4brpxufamuzu >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >>> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >>> >>> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
