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From: Gary Gregory <garydgregory@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2016 13:47:36 -0700
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Subject: Re: [compress] Update to Java 7?
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I updated the POM to Java 7 in Git master.

Gary

On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 6:48 AM, Stian Soiland-Reyes <stain@apache.org>
wrote:

> I don't think we should need that strong arguments to go to Java 7.
> Remember being "stuck in the past" with older syntax also puts off
> potential new contributors and eventually causes code rot. E.g.
> Commons Compress is very InputStream-centric, and so a
> try-with-resources could be quite good to simplify the code - arguably
> mainly the tests.
>
> Being able to upgrade ZipFile to support SeekableByteChannel and
> java.nio.file.Path sounds like a good motivation to me.
>
>
> We should still be more careful about upgrading to Java 8, but I think
> Java 7 should be the expected minimum.
>
> On 24 June 2016 at 14:14, Stefan Bodewig <bodewig@apache.org> wrote:
> > On 2016-06-24, Gary Gregory wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >
> >> I was looking at some compress code that I wanted to update to
> >> switch-on-string but realized the code is still on Java 6.
> >
> > "still" means 1.12 has been the first release to require Java 6 - 1.11
> > was at Java 5 :-)
> >
> >> OK to bump to Java 7?
> >
> > If it is useful for us, yes.
> >
> > try-with-resources is nice but wouldn't convince me. SeekableByteChannel
> > to make ZipFile and SevenZFile usable for non-Files would.
> >
> > Stefan
> >
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