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List:       jakarta-commons-dev
Subject:    Re: [configuration] Java 8 types
From:       Gary Gregory <garydgregory () gmail ! com>
Date:       2018-03-29 18:30:43
Message-ID: CACZkXPwPow_ZJsN_7TQFh5cN37mhfiE6XX2rqgDSMHpc335Kqw () mail ! gmail ! com
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Hi,

We are talking dead Java 7 here, Android or not, Java 10 just came out. It
looks like Android supports some Java 8 at least:
https://developer.android.com/studio/write/java8-support.html

If someone has a burning desire to maintain a Java 7 branch, go for it. I
do think that in 2018, we need to move off Java 7 for main Java
development...

Gary

On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 12:05 PM, Oliver Heger <oliver.heger@oliver-heger.de
> wrote:

>
>
> Am 29.03.2018 um 15:54 schrieb Gary Gregory:
> > Done.
> >
> > Gary
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 2:21 PM, Jochen Wiedmann <
> jochen.wiedmann@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> +1
> >>
> >>
> >> On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 9:06 PM, Gary Gregory <garydgregory@gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>> Hi All:
> >>>
> >>> I say it is time to update Commons Configuration to Java 8 and support
> >> the
> >>> types in java.time.
> >>>
> >>> Thoughts?
>
> Supporting these new types is certainly desirable.
>
> As the conversion mechanism is designed to be extensible, maybe this can
> be achieved without increasing the minimum Java requirement for the core
> library: We could add a module (making [configuration] to a multi-module
> project) that just contains a converter for new Java 8 types. This
> module would then obviously require Java 8.
>
> The API for installing this converter probably would need some tweaking
> to make the extension of the conversion mechanism more convenient. But
> this should be doable. The user guide [1] describes this mechanism and
> how to add custom converters.
>
> While I am not strictly against switching to Java 8, I fear that there
> are still users who have to stick to version 1.7, for instance on Android.
>
> Oliver
>
> [1]
> http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-configuration/
> userguide/howto_basicfeatures.html#Data_type_conversions
>
> >>>
> >>> Gary
> >>
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