I dunno. I'd suggest that we release the 1.7 compatibility first, and see what happens. Maybe even that might prove controversial, although I doubt it.



Actually, what about having a release with both 1.7 and 1.8-compatible builds?





​we could, i suppose, although that would mean we'd force users to choose which version they want, rather than just having a big 'download' button. 


Is there anything out there that would allow us to have at least some of the new features, but with java7-compatible bytecode?