On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 11:19 AM, Phil Steitz <phil.ste...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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. > And we still do with branch/1_5_RELEASE which I've just fixed to contain 1.5.8-SNAPSHOT. Gary > > 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 > > -- E-Mail: garydgreg...@gmail.com | ggreg...@apache.org JUnit in Action, 2nd Ed: <http://goog_1249600977>http://bit.ly/ECvg0 Spring Batch in Action: <http://s.apache.org/HOq>http://bit.ly/bqpbCK Blog: http://garygregory.wordpress.com Home: http://garygregory.com/ Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory
