On 16 July 2013 09:12, Emmanuel Lécharny <elecha...@gmail.com> wrote: > Le 7/16/13 2:41 AM, sebb a écrit : >> On 21 May 2013 10:02, Steve Ulrich <steve.ulr...@proemion.com> wrote: >>> 2 Reasons for 7.0: >>> 1) When MINA 3 is released, Java 8 is near or already released >>> 2) Developers who don't want to upgrade to Java 7 because of the (testing, >>> developing, whatever) effort won't upgrade to MINA 3 either. >> I don't think that's generally true. >> If MINA is part of a larger system, then updating Java as well as MINA >> is a lot more work and testing than just updating MINA. >> Especially if the system is installed on multiple nodes which may have >> different hardware and configs. > > Those objections are very valuable for MINA 2. MINA 3 will take at least > one more year to get out in a RC state, so I would rather not spend a > minute of my very busy agenda to take care of Java 6 compatibility for > MINA 3. > I don't want to see MINA to face the same problem that > commons-collection is facing : 9 years after the addition of generics in > Java, we still don't have a library supporting them...
That's an entirely separate issue; part of the problem is it's extremely difficult to do generics correctly in libraries such as collections. > > -- > Regards, > Cordialement, > Emmanuel Lécharny > www.iktek.com >
