I don't see the benefits in this. As I said earlier, Java 6 and 7 IMO don't provide enough benefits to justify the change.
Uli On 2014-05-01 19:01, Kalle Korhonen wrote: > I agree with Rob. A common sense approach would be to require 1.6 for T5.4 > and then require 1.8 in a future version. > > Kalle > > > On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 9:54 AM, Robert Zeigler > <robert.zeig...@roxanemy.com>wrote: > >> Not opposed to an upgrade to Java 8, but not sure 5.4 is the right time >> for it. 5.4 has been long-enough in coming that I feel it would be better >> to release 5.4, and use 5.5 as the java8 upgrade, possibly with a fairly >> short release time between 5.4 and 5.5. Basically, 5.5 could be “5.4 with >> java 8 compatibility” (and whatever new features (like the httpOnly cookie >> flag ticket you commented on recently) that would need > java 1.5 to >> support). >> >> Robert >> >> On May 1, 2014, at 5/111:38 AM , Ulrich Stärk <u...@spielviel.de> wrote: >> >>> Historically I have been a strong opponent to Java version upgrades for >> Tapestry because IMO the >>> disadvantages outweighed the advantages by far. >>> >>> 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. >>> >>> We should have a formal vote for such a radical change and a discussion >> firstin order to gather >>> comments and opinions from the community. >>> >>> Uli >>> >>> On 2014-04-30 12:57, Jochen Kemnade wrote: >>>> Am 29.04.2014 21:07, schrieb Jochen Kemnade: >>>>> I'll downgrade it tomorrow and get myself a Java 1.5 compiler... >>>> >>>> Which is much harder than I thought it was. I managed to find old >> rt.jar and jce.jar files and to >>>> make Gradle use them. >>>> Now I'm getting compile errors, e.g. in VirtualResource:88, >> MacOutputStream:45 and others. Mostly, >>>> it's Java 6 methods being used. >>>> First of all, do we still want to stick with Java 5 now that Java 8 is >> out and even Java 6 is EOL? >>>> Second, I wonder why it builds in Jenkins. What JDK is used there? >>>> >>>> Jochen >>>> >>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tapestry.apache.org >>>> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tapestry.apache.org >>>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tapestry.apache.org >>> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tapestry.apache.org >>> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tapestry.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tapestry.apache.org >> >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tapestry.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tapestry.apache.org
