On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 10:45 AM, Mark Thomas <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 30/01/2014 15:34, Gary Gregory wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 10:30 AM, Mark Thomas <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> On 30/01/2014 15:20, Gary Gregory wrote: > >>> Hi All: > >>> > >>> What is the outlook on getting a pool2-based dbcp2? > >> > >> I'm working on that at the moment. There are currently 48 open bugs for > >> DBCP, at least some of which will require API changes to fix. I haven't > >> yet formed an opinion on which ones to fix, which ones to resolve as > >> won't fix and which ones to punt to 3.0. > >> > > > > Ok, thanks for the update. Sounds like we are still a ways away. > > It depends. Based on my experience so far today, a number of the open > issues duplicate known, fixed problems. (Part of the reason for that may > well be the time that has passed since 1.4 was released.) If a few of us > spent a little time on the DBCP bug list I suspect it would shrink > fairly quickly. Any non-committers lurking on this list that want to > help out are more than welcome. Anyone can review a bug, suggest a > patch, identify user error, spot duplicates etc. > > It is looking very much like a DBCP 2 release is on the critical path > for Apache Tomcat 8 to have its first stable release. That means DBCP2 > will be getting a lot of my attention for a while but help is always > welcome. > > A release for 1.x (1.5.1, 1.4.1 and 1.3.1 assuming that we want to keep > version numbers aligned and 1.4.x and 1.3.x will be generated from the > 1.5.x branch) may be a helpful stopgap as there have been a lot of > fixes. There was talk of not releasing any more 1.3.x releases (Java 1.4 > support - I'd be fine with that). > I'd support only working on Java 6 for maintenance and Java 7 for current trunk work. Gary > > Mark > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > -- E-Mail: [email protected] | [email protected] Java Persistence with Hibernate, Second Edition<http://www.manning.com/bauer3/> JUnit in Action, Second Edition <http://www.manning.com/tahchiev/> Spring Batch in Action <http://www.manning.com/templier/> Blog: http://garygregory.wordpress.com Home: http://garygregory.com/ Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory
