Re: [Pydev-code] Java 7 and Apache Commons

Hi Jonah,

Ok, the poll (
http://pydev.blogspot.com.br/2013/08/pydev-poll-about-minimum-javaeclipse.html)
has been around for some time already, and it seems the major issue there
would be support for older versions of Mac OS, where java can't be
upgraded...

Anyways, I think that given the feedback, going forward to support only
Java 7 and Eclipse 3.7 onwards is what we should look at...

Still, I think that this breakage should be pretty visible, so, I'd like to
keep PyDev 2.x releases based on the current dependencies and go forward to
breaking the dependency in PyDev 3.

The idea would be stabilizing and doing one more release on PyDev 2,
creating a branch to keep it going, doing one more bugfix-only release from
that branch and then creating PyDev 3 where we can start targeting Eclipse
3.7 onwards and Java 7.

Regarding the apache commons, I took a (rather quick) look at it and I
don't think they replace all that's used in the PyDev StringUtils... and in
some cases (i.e.: StringUtils.join), their implementation seems to be
considerably slower than the current PyDev implementation which was pretty
optimized, so, I'm a little wary about making that replacement...

As for adding the apache commons, I'd like to know if you have specific
things you'd like to use (if it's just one or 2 utility classes, I'm not
sure it's worth the extra weight -- in that case, as their license allows,
it may be worth just copying those classes).

Cheers,

Fabio

On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 9:18 PM, Fabio Zadrozny <fa...@es...> wrote:

> Hi Jonah,
>
> I'll do the following: I'll create a blog entry to ask people what they
> think about... personally, I think going forward is nice, but I'd like to
> check with the current user base if that's an issue... (at a time I know
> Mac OS users had problems updating to more recent versions of Java, and
> Eclipse 3.2 was the version used by Aptana Studio 2, but I don't think it
> has to be supported anymore).
>
> So, I'll ask users to be able to give you feedback :)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Fabio
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Jonah Graham <jo...@ki...>wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I know that PyDev officially supports Eclipse 3.2+[1]/Java 6+ (or
>> 5?)[2], however I would like to use some features of Java 7 (e.g.
>> java.nio stuff). In addition I would love to be able to use various
>> apache commons stuff (e.g. StringUtils[3]).
>>
>> What are the issues/(other?) with supporting older versions of
>> Eclipse/Java/etc?
>>
>> Thoughts/comments?
>> Thanks,
>> Jonah
>>
>> [1] There is a little bit of code with correct try/catch in
>> PydevPlugin for supporting Eclipse 4+ if it is available.
>> [2] On http://pydev.org/download.html it states Jave 6+ (Java 7
>> recommended), but on http://pydev.org/developers.html for developers
>> the request is still Java 5 API?
>> [3] If PyDev did become dependent on apache commons, then I could go
>> and remove the (then) redundant code in PyDev's StringUtils?
>>
>>
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