Sorry I missed this poll. I'm a developer of Gradle, and we use HttpClient pretty heavily under the covers as part of our dependency resolution engine. Unfortunately we're stuck with Java 1.5 compatibility for the time being: that _may_ change to 1.6 for Gradle 2.0 (early next year), but it definitely won't be 1.7 any time soon.
If you guys decide to upgrade then fair enough; I guess we'll need to decide whether to backport new features, stick with what we've got or look elsewhere. (We'd be quite interested in integrated Windows Authentication.) Anyway, just another data point, not a vote either way. cheers Daz On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 2:10 AM, Oleg Kalnichevski <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 2013-09-16 at 12:36 -0700, Noah Levitt wrote: > > The timeline for 4.4 might have some bearing on this. Do we have an > > idea approximately when to expect 4.4 final? > > > > Noah > > > > No time line yet. However given a fairly small set of features planned > for 4.4 (Integrated Windows Auth and the latest cookie spec) 4.4 > development is likely to take about 3 to 6 months. > > Oleg > > > On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 5:02 AM, Oleg Kalnichevski <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > 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. > > > [ ] upgrade to Java 1.6: one step at a time. > > > [ ] upgrade to Java 1.7: new features are more important. > > > ------------------- > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > > > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
