I think multi-catch and try with resources are big enough on their own to take advantage of in java 7 :-) The syntactic sugar of numerical literals with underscores, and the generic type inference although sugar will make code more readable.
As for Java8 bringing usefull things, streams to those that aren't in the know can create very under-performing code when used ([in]correctly) at scale and Lambdas despite Jesse's love of them are a half baked implementation that is oft (ab)used to create unintelligible code and the time API doesn't bring much that we couldn't do if we adopted JodaTime. +1 to get the next LTS as Java7 only and the one after as Java8 only. On Tuesday, 24 March 2015 10:42:02 UTC, nicolas de loof wrote: > > As said when I opened this topic, I can't see major benefit in requiring > Java 7 from a developer point of view (some syntactic sugar, few new API, > what else ?), compared to huge benefit of Java 8 to review API design and > extensibility. > > 2015-03-24 11:36 GMT+01:00 Stephen Connolly <stephen.al...@gmail.com > <javascript:>>: > >> I think we could start looking at requiring Java 7 as a minimum for >> Runtime of Jenkins... given that Maven 3.3.1 has moved its minimum runtime >> to Java 7... if we want to bump the evil plugin version to use the Maven >> 3.3.1 embedded jars we will have to bump Jenkins to require Java 7 as a >> minimum... never mind that Java 7 goes EOL next month >> >> On 24 March 2015 at 10:33, James Nord <james...@gmail.com <javascript:>> >> wrote: >> >>> Rejoice! IBM AIX and z/OS now have a GA Java8 version. >>> >>> http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21696670 >>> >>> Is it time to revisit this once more? >>> >>> /James >>> >>> >>> On Thursday, 25 September 2014 16:20:35 UTC+1, Jesse Glick wrote: >>> >>>> On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 8:47 PM, Mark Waite <mark.ea...@gmail.com> >>>> wrote: >>>> > I added a new test to the git client plugin which depended on a Java >>>> 7 NIO >>>> > feature. It failed to compile in my test configuration with Java 6. >>>> >>>> I think it is fine to require Java 7 in tests; there was already a >>>> proposal which met with no controversy to require 7 for building >>>> plugins, while continuing to use -target 6 and Animal Sniffer to >>>> prevent accidental use of 7+ APIs or bytecode (*). Requiring 8 for >>>> building plugins, and thus allowing -source 8 features in >>>> src/test/java/**/*.java (**), would be a natural next step, a bit >>>> controversial but much less so than requiring 8 for running Jenkins >>>> itself. >>>> >>>> >>>> (*) Of course this means functional tests do not find runtime problems >>>> occurring on 6 despite lack of linkage errors. But the alternative of >>>> running tests on 6 just means the reverse problem, that behavioral >>>> changes in 7 which break the plugin are not caught; and this is worse, >>>> since many more people will really be running on 7. >>>> >>>> (**) The upcoming version of Animal Sniffer allows you to skip checks >>>> on test-scope dependencies. But it might not yet allow checks to be >>>> skipped on src/test/java/**/*.java, which is not a dependency; will >>>> need to look into it. >>>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "Jenkins Developers" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to jenkinsci-de...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/c7fd3bd4-26f6-488f-a4bc-52bbf0a8dbad%40googlegroups.com >>> >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/c7fd3bd4-26f6-488f-a4bc-52bbf0a8dbad%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Jenkins Developers" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to jenkinsci-de...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/CA%2BnPnMy1JAFugQHay92Uj1WA%3DZF_uBOQcWQ%3DYWjKa0bJLm9n2w%40mail.gmail.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/CA%2BnPnMy1JAFugQHay92Uj1WA%3DZF_uBOQcWQ%3DYWjKa0bJLm9n2w%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to jenkinsci-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/030973cc-703d-4314-80b9-a83a1693b3f4%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
