threetenbp and java 8

[elharo]

The public API exposes org.threeten.bp.Duration and other classes. Oops.

Figure out what to do when we move to Java 8. Keep it forever? Replace with java.time, bump the major version, and change the package?

[miraleung]

That might have side effects on the client libraries. Given LTS, I'm not sure if we can move off of threeten if that's actively being used.

[elharo]

LTS shouldn't affect this. That's a separate branch.

[XN137]

after #1671
the README says that java 8 is the minimum runtime version...

are there any plans to remove org.threeten.bp.Duration from the public api going forward?

[blakeli0]

@XN137 We don't have any plans at this moment. However, this is definitely a good improvement to our client libraries, we may implement this idea once we have some capacity.

[blakeli0]

Closing this issue in favor of tracking this topic in the generator googleapis/sdk-platform-java#726