Thank you - it does highlight where help can be given. I'm really surprised at the situation with Java 8 emulation - is this something that Google is just not interested in? It seems odd given their description of Java technologies that give them cross-platform development: Android JDK, GWT, and j2objc, especially now that Google are soon to provide Java 8 support for Android. Ah well.
On Sunday, 8 May 2016, Jens <[email protected]> wrote: > Is there anything that can be done to assist with progress? Is there a >> problem with lack of interest in GWT from, say, Google? Does GWT 2.8 >> involve too many features when compared to 2.7? Is there a lack of >> developers working on GWT? Are more testers needed? > > > Basically it has been decided to ship Java 8 API support with GWT 2.8 and > to make sure it works with the next Guava release which will require Java 8 > APIs. If we don't do this then next Guava release would need to drop GWT > support, which is bad. > > Currently some dependencies of stream support are in the review process, > and stream support itself has already been implemented but not yet pushed > to review. Also it seems like we need to fix some compatibility issues of > our emulation with future Guava. > Google developers do not work on Java 8 API emulation so GWT relies on > contributions. Three people (including me) have worked on it in the past > but of course we only do it in our spare time. > > You can also read some comments here: > https://plus.google.com/104553077953666769660/posts/fb5HehBxHdC > > You can help review Java 8 related contributions on Gerrit as most "easy" > Java 8 emulations have already been covered. What nobody has touched yet is > java.util.Base64 (pretty easy though), CompletableFuture (discussable but > we think its useful and can be emulated using native Promises or a fallback > impl) and of course java.time (generally doable but a bit more work). > > -- J. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "GWT Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/google-web-toolkit/4ISY79wAq04/unsubscribe > . > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','google-web-toolkit%[email protected]');> > . > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GWT Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
