> -----Original Message----- > From: Oleg Kalnichevski [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, September 16, 2013 5:03 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [POLL] Minimal JRE level as of HttpClient 4.4 > > Folks, > > Java 1.5 compatibility has become increasing difficult to maintain and > increasing pointless on top of that. We, as a project, have been > thinking about upgrading minimal JRE level requirement for the > HttpClient 4.4 branch to something newer. While Java 1.6 might be a > reasonable and a conservative choice in terms of stability and adoption, > it actually brings little in terms of new features we could make use of > in HttpClient. Besides, Java 1.6 is officially end of life. So, we might > as well consider upgrading to Java 1.7 which would give us NIO2, full > support for 'try with resources', and probably some other features. > > Please let us know what you think and respond to this poll. > > All users of HttpClient are encouraged to participate. Every vote will > count.
------------------- [ ] keep Java 1.5 compatibility: no good reason to upgrade. [X] upgrade to Java 1.6: one step at a time. [ ] upgrade to Java 1.7: new features are more important. ------------------- 1.6 may be at EOL, but the version of our principal application framework is only certified at JDK 1.6. We won't be fully upgraded for many months yet.
