Am 01.05.2014 18:38, schrieb Ulrich Stärk: > Now that we have lambda expressions, default methods, Nashorn and many other > useful features I'm > leaning towards making a radical break and switch to Java 8.
I second that. The changes in Java 6 and 7 wouldn't have justified the switch in my opinion. But lambdas and Nashorn are definitely something we would benefit from. I also thought of releasing 5.5 based on Java 8 short after 5.4. I actually like the idea but I fear that what was supposed to be "short after" will eventually become another year or two. But I'm definitely in favor of stepping away from 1.5, especially because nobody seems to use a Java 1.5 compiler anymore and some of us (*cough*) might even push changes that would break the build on a JDK5. That last issue makes me think that it would be best to switch to Java 6 at least. Jochen
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