Thank you Andreas! This all sounds very reasonable
> On Jan 7, 2023, at 1:18 PM, Andreas Reichel <andr...@manticore-projects.com>
> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 2023-01-07 at 13:09 -0600, le...@flowlogix.com wrote:
>> Ok, then the question becomes: is it worth the effort.
>
> Only the Shiro Team can answer that question of course. Maybe it becomes more
> interesting, when a sponsor shows up who needs and pays a Shiro 3 on Java 8.
> As long as you only manage API compliant dependencies, its simple.
> But when you will want to use new Java 11 only features from newest
> libraries, you will always have to provide the empty Stub Class, which
> becomes cumbersome and annoying.
>
> I see it rather as a fall back scenario, when Java 8 compatibility is needed.
> (Like in my FMA example, where many customers benefit from the FMA
> acceleration but 1 customer is stubborn and still insists in Java 8).
>
> Cheers
> Andreas
>
>
