Re: [DISCUSS] Proactive Feature Development...

2013-10-08 Thread Benedikt Ritter
Send from my mobile device > Am 08.10.2013 um 19:04 schrieb Phil Steitz : > >> On 10/8/13 9:48 AM, Benedikt Ritter wrote: >> 2013/10/8 Stefan Bodewig >> On 2013-10-08, James Carman wrote: How about this for an idea? What if instead of waiting until *after* a new JDK come

Re: [DISCUSS] Proactive Feature Development...

2013-10-08 Thread Phil Steitz
On 10/8/13 9:48 AM, Benedikt Ritter wrote: > 2013/10/8 Stefan Bodewig > >> On 2013-10-08, James Carman wrote: >> >>> How about this for an idea? What if instead of waiting until *after* >>> a new JDK comes out (and in some cases MANY years later), we start >>> with pre-release versions in a branc

Re: [DISCUSS] Proactive Feature Development...

2013-10-08 Thread Benedikt Ritter
2013/10/8 Stefan Bodewig > On 2013-10-08, James Carman wrote: > > > How about this for an idea? What if instead of waiting until *after* > > a new JDK comes out (and in some cases MANY years later), we start > > with pre-release versions in a branch or something to start using the > > new langua

Re: [DISCUSS] Proactive Feature Development...

2013-10-08 Thread Matt Benson
WRT [functor], this process has been ongoing; ex: the recent inversion of its API names such that unary functor types get the "unadorned" names (i.e. Function/Predicate/Procedure to be more in-line with Java 8). AIUI lambdas buy you the ability to tersely implement single-method interfaces, so [f

Re: [DISCUSS] Proactive Feature Development...

2013-10-08 Thread Emmanuel Bourg
Le 08/10/2013 16:04, James Carman a écrit : > Are there any other features of JDK8 that we think could be > used by our projects? You may want to rethink [functor] in a Java 8 context. Emmanuel Bourg - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: [DISCUSS] Proactive Feature Development...

2013-10-08 Thread James Carman
On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 10:00 AM, Stefan Bodewig wrote: > > In compress I have created a branch that used snapshot releases of XZ > for Java or developed Zip64 support in a branch (which required Java5 > when compress was at 1.4 compatibiity). Torsten used to do some API > refactoring in a branch

Re: [DISCUSS] Proactive Feature Development...

2013-10-08 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On 2013-10-08, James Carman wrote: > I am not saying we rule it out or anything. I'm talking about ideas > that could be fun. I don't remember us ever doing something like > that. Well, my vision is somewhat narrow as I tend to stay in my little corner in compress and only occasionaly lurk anyw

Re: [DISCUSS] Proactive Feature Development...

2013-10-08 Thread James Carman
I am not saying we rule it out or anything. I'm talking about ideas that could be fun. I don't remember us ever doing something like that. On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 9:44 AM, Stefan Bodewig wrote: > On 2013-10-08, James Carman wrote: > >> How about this for an idea? What if instead of waiting unti

Re: [DISCUSS] Proactive Feature Development...

2013-10-08 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On 2013-10-08, James Carman wrote: > How about this for an idea? What if instead of waiting until *after* > a new JDK comes out (and in some cases MANY years later), we start > with pre-release versions in a branch or something to start using the > new language features? Maybe I'm just naive, bu

[DISCUSS] Proactive Feature Development...

2013-10-08 Thread James Carman
How about this for an idea? What if instead of waiting until *after* a new JDK comes out (and in some cases MANY years later), we start with pre-release versions in a branch or something to start using the new language features? This way, we can be ready when the new JDK comes out (or shortly the