On 12/21/11 9:10 AM, Gary Gregory wrote: > My plan is to port any fixes from 1.5.x releases to 1.6.0 if any or > encourage others to do so. I do not plan on touching 1.5.x once 1.6 is > out. Because of the binary compatibility of 1.6, I would hope that > folks would patch 1.6 first and then port to 1.5.x if asked by users
I am not prepared to do that (maintain both branches) and unless someone else volunteers, I see it as irresponsible to release a new train. 1.5.x ships with tomcat and is used by lots of other production applications. We need to maintain the ability to patch it. Phil > , > but that's just me. I see a non-generics pool1 as a dead end. 2.0 is > great but unreleased and NOT a drop in, hence 1.6. > > Gary > > On Dec 21, 2011, at 10:51, Phil Steitz <phil.ste...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> As stated above, I am -1 for releasing this. I don't think we have >> resources to support three release trains in [pool]. Are you >> prepared to take on bug fixing / porting, user and dev list support >> for this code? Is anyone else? >> >> Phil >> >> On 12/21/11 6:13 AM, Gary Gregory wrote: >>> Hello Generics fan, >>> >>> Please review and continue on [POOL-208] Support Java 1.5 Generics in >>> version 1.x. >>> >>> The code is in the POOL_1_X branch, cooking up for a 1.6 release very soon. >>> >>> There are NO code changes in the main code that should affect behavior. >>> I've only touched code for adding generics. >>> >>> As we all know, this is binary compatible with 1.5.x because of type >>> erasure. >>> >>> I have changed some of the tests because 100% source compatibility is not >>> possible. >>> >>> APIs that I could not fully generify are: >>> >>> - org.apache.commons.pool.PoolUtils.adapt(KeyedObjectPool<Object, V>, >>> Object) >>> - >>> org.apache.commons.pool.PoolUtils.adapt(KeyedPoolableObjectFactory<Object, >>> V>) >>> >>> Please dig in and help to make Pool1 with generics the best it can be for >>> 1.6. >>> >>> My goal is to ONLY change code for Generics. >>> >>> Other kind of fiddling like enhanced for-loops will make it harder to port >>> fixes to and from 1.5.x. >>> >>> If you like enhanced for-loops or other Java 5 features, I won't stop you, >>> but it is not my goal here. >>> >>> Thank you, >>> Gary >>> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
