On 02/02/2018 12:44 PM, Michael Šimáček wrote: > Hi folks, > > I'm going to update guava in rawhide to version 20. This will break a > few packages, but most of them should be easy to patch. > Most of the failures I've seen were due to removal of emptyIterator > method, which can be replaced by Collections.emptyIterator(). > See [1] and [2] for the list of deprecated elements of previous > versions, which usually tells you what is the replacement. > > You may notice that guava 20 is not the latest release. The reason I > want to update to version 20 first is that guava 21 changes the minimal > required Java version to 8, which would effectively raise the > requirement for all the dependent packages. For packages like maven, > that would be a regression. Therefore I want to do these steps: > 1) Update guava to version 20 (latest Java 7 compatible) > 2) Create a guava20 compat package > 3) Rebuild selected packages against the compat one > 4) Update guava to latest upstream version That's a good plan, thanks for working on the update. -- Mikolaj Izdebski Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat IRC: mizdebsk _______________________________________________ java-devel mailing list -- java-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to java-devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
