[tycho-dev] New Java versions (was Re: Tycho 3.0 release)

[Mickael Istria <mistria@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jan 7, 2022 at 12:03 PM Christoph Läubrich <laeubi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Probably yes, but that's all a bit syntactic sugar to me compared to the
burden we put on consumers of tycho.

Same goes for Streams, for Functions... after all, why aren't we still running against Java 5? At some point, the world needs to move forward and there will always be a user being a burden to the project.

 

I really don't want
to loose users that currently help us test new version regular just
because they are mad about being forced to upgrade their builds just for
a little convince...

That's the usual fear, but in practice, the history of Eclipse Platform and other projects have demonstrated that requiring newer Java versions doesn't cause a loss of users, and that lack of innovation and code quality drives to a loss of users; so somehow, if you as a committer want to serve users best, you need to use features that make you more productive/innovative and write higher quality code. All the sugar is serving that goal.