Issues requiring a major release that won't be fixed anytime soon

What is this? Simply said, this is:

• an invitation not to open new issues implying wide API breakage
• a single collection point for such issues
• a gentle way to let the dev team absorb the idea that sooner or later a major release will be needed ☺️

This is what I collected so far:

• Immutable Color and Vector
• gdx-utils
• Logging (BTW I think that a logging system separated from Gdx.app, for instance Gdx.logger, would be much easier to customize)
• Vulkan
• For consistency’s sake use Array in place of ArrayList

[badlogic]

I’m not sure what people expect from Vulkan. It’s an extremely fickle API and the gains for what 99% of libGDX users do (2D) will most likely be nil.

[badlogic]

Jack is broken in all kinds of funny ways. RetroLambda does the same thing, I’m OK with (optionally) supporting that in gdx-setup.

On Dec 15, 2016 11:46 PM, “Jakub Kerber” [e-mail] wrote:

Speaking of Java 8 though, things have changed since the release of Android 7.0 (previously N), namely most Java 8 features are now supported on older Android versions thanks to Google’s new “Jack” toolchain, specifically:

Features requiring Android 6.0 and lower:

• Lambda expressions
• Method references
• Type annotations

Features requiring Android 7.0 and newer:

• Default and static interface methods
• Repeatable annotations

All we need to do is to update our build.gradle files to allow source compatibility with JDK 1.8 and to tell the Android SDK to build with Jack (details in the link below) and we’re ready to go.

I don’t see why we shouldn’t take advantage of new features of Java 8 (specifically the new Stream utlities, which could be very useful on modern multi-core mobile devices) instead of still using a 10-year old Java version. I’m ready to take care of the necessary PR myself, as long as we all agree on this.

source: https://developer.android.com/guide/platform/j8-jack.html

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