On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 5:19 PM, Phil Steitz <phil.ste...@gmail.com> wrote: > 1.5.x ships with tomcat and is used by lots of other production > applications. We need to maintain the ability to patch it.
Tomcat 5.5 (the oldest stable version i can find) uses Java 5: http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/setup.html This proposed release is binary compatible - they should not have any issue to upgrade, right? How long would you like to maintain the elder 1.5.x code without java 5 support? Cheers Christian > > 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 > -- http://www.grobmeier.de https://www.timeandbill.de --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
