2015-03-24 20:59 GMT+01:00 Richard Bywater <[email protected]>: > I'm sorry but yet again you appear to be taking a very rude attitude with > other community members with basically "your opinion does not matter". > > Last time I checked I was part of the *we* by being part of the community > and simply saying update your infrastructure trivialises the situation for > what is possibly a reasonable user base of Jenkins. > > Java 7 is not even end of lifed yet and so I'm wondering what the > compelling argument for Java 8 is. That is, what features does it enable > that will drive Jenkins to the next level? >
- Refactor API / extension points as @FunctionalInterface - adopt closures vs anonymous classes - replace abstract class extension mechanism with interface (and as such multi-inheritance support) - + few new useful APIs > Richard > > On 8:53AM, Wed, 25/03/2015 Kanstantsin Shautsou <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Sorry, but rhel5 is not something that we should care about, AFAIR it on >> extended support. You can still use ancient jenkins version and ask RHEL >> support to do patches for jenkins. RHEL6 and RHEL7 were released long time >> ago - update your infra. >> >> On Mar 24, 2015, at 22:37, Richard Bywater <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> +1 for Java 7, -1 for Java 8 (at this time). Reason for that is that I >> don't believe there is any "normal" way for RHEL5 servers to get Java 8 and >> it will not be hitting its "end of production" phase until March 2017 and >> so I'm guessing there's still a lot out there. >> >> Richard. >> >> On Wed, 25 Mar 2015 at 08:07 Jesse Glick <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 6:41 AM, nicolas de loof >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> > I can't see major benefit in requiring Java 7 from a developer point >>> of view (some syntactic sugar, few new API >>> >>> java.nio.file.* is actually rather important for Jenkins code, >>> particularly in core, since it uses the filesystem so heavily. >>> >>> -- >>> 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 [email protected]. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ >>> msgid/jenkinsci-dev/CANfRfr1%2BwP_j6S7_RtoLH_SYTjdO8Bs- >>> QxEod520hhe5xKv7AQ%40mail.gmail.com. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> -- >> >> You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the >> Google Groups "Jenkins Developers" group. >> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/jenkinsci-dev/sw_WepGw0Pk/unsubscribe. >> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >> [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/CAMui9471xSn_NknofC4H%2BaScs_j7oi%2B%2BpJcvEsz59CYgX81jdA%40mail.gmail.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/CAMui9471xSn_NknofC4H%2BaScs_j7oi%2B%2BpJcvEsz59CYgX81jdA%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 [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/2EDF677B-14F1-478C-A2D5-4BC1514AAB06%40gmail.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/2EDF677B-14F1-478C-A2D5-4BC1514AAB06%40gmail.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 [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/CAMui947O1Bfx%2Bf%2B%2BL3U%2BsfYnBnqMJqUkS5oRSf-dhNbTcFs5ZA%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/CAMui947O1Bfx%2Bf%2B%2BL3U%2BsfYnBnqMJqUkS5oRSf-dhNbTcFs5ZA%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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/CANMVJzkOu43h5Qw3pNq5%2BQtfoyByv8C0FQZSk84Fde4vUgnSnA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
