On 26 September 2014 01:26, Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> wrote: > Well, by the time 5.0 comes out, the odds are that Java 7 will be EOL > (April 2015)! ;-)
That is not directly relevant. Commercial entities tend to be very cautious about upgrading software, and anyway can pay for extended support. > Gary > > On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 6:45 PM, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 25 September 2014 19:47, Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > I do like programming with try-with-resources, feels safer, warm and >> fuzzy. >> >> However, there are other ways to achieve resource cleanup which don't >> require 1.7 >> Findbugs and IDEs are quite good at reporting where resources have not >> been closed. >> >> So I would not regard that as a reason to require 1.7 >> >> > Gary >> > >> > On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 2:45 PM, Oleg Kalnichevski <ol...@apache.org> >> wrote: >> > >> >> On Thu, 2014-09-25 at 18:17 +0100, sebb wrote: >> >> > On 25 September 2014 10:17, Oleg Kalnichevski <ol...@apache.org> >> wrote: >> >> > > On Wed, 2014-09-24 at 17:45 -0400, Todd W Lainhart wrote: >> >> > > >> >> > > ... >> >> > > >> >> > >> Also I'm recalling minimum JVM versions for HttpComponents being >> >> discussed >> >> > >> and polled. Was it 1.6 or 1.7 that was decided upon for subsequent >> >> > >> releases (e.g. 4.4)? Maybe the poll was for Android only? >> >> > >> >> >> > > >> >> > > HC 4.4 requires 1.6. The majority of respondents were in favor of >> >> > > upgrading straight to 1.7, so 5.0 might be the right time to >> upgrade to >> >> > > 1.7. >> >> > >> >> > There is no point requiring 1.7 for the sake of it. >> >> > That will exclude users who cannot upgrade from 1.6 >> >> > >> >> > However, if there are new features in 1.7 that make a significant >> >> > difference to the HC code, then it is worth considering. >> >> > >> >> > I have yet to see any discussion of the new features in 1.7 which are >> >> > a "must-have" as far as HC is concerned. >> >> > >> >> >> >> I agree. ConcurrentLinkedDeque [1] may be required for lock-less >> >> (concurrent) connection pools [2]. There might still be ways to use >> >> ConcurrentLinkedQueue instead. >> >> >> >> Oleg >> >> >> >> [1] >> >> >> >> >> http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/concurrent/ConcurrentLinkedDeque.html >> >> [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HTTPCORE-390 >> >> >> >> > > Oleg >> >> > > >> >> > > >> >> > > >> >> > > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: httpclient-users-unsubscr...@hc.apache.org >> >> > > For additional commands, e-mail: >> httpclient-users-h...@hc.apache.org >> >> > > >> >> > >> >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: httpclient-users-unsubscr...@hc.apache.org >> >> > For additional commands, e-mail: httpclient-users-h...@hc.apache.org >> >> > >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: httpclient-users-unsubscr...@hc.apache.org >> >> For additional commands, e-mail: httpclient-users-h...@hc.apache.org >> >> >> >> >> > >> > >> > -- >> > E-Mail: garydgreg...@gmail.com | ggreg...@apache.org >> > Java Persistence with Hibernate, Second Edition >> > <http://www.manning.com/bauer3/> >> > JUnit in Action, Second Edition <http://www.manning.com/tahchiev/> >> > Spring Batch in Action <http://www.manning.com/templier/> >> > Blog: http://garygregory.wordpress.com >> > Home: http://garygregory.com/ >> > Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: httpclient-users-unsubscr...@hc.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: httpclient-users-h...@hc.apache.org >> >> > > > -- > E-Mail: garydgreg...@gmail.com | ggreg...@apache.org > Java Persistence with Hibernate, Second Edition > <http://www.manning.com/bauer3/> > JUnit in Action, Second Edition <http://www.manning.com/tahchiev/> > Spring Batch in Action <http://www.manning.com/templier/> > Blog: http://garygregory.wordpress.com > Home: http://garygregory.com/ > Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: httpclient-users-unsubscr...@hc.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: httpclient-users-h...@hc.apache.org
