Either version # is fine with me. Gary
On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 8:40 AM, Torsten Curdt <tcu...@vafer.org> wrote: > Go go go! Thanks for looking into this :) > > IIRC there is so much stuff fixed and changed from 5.2 - I think > calling it 6.0 expresses this better than 5.3. > Especially with the changes to the visitor interface. > > cheers, > Torsten > > On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 12:30 PM, Emmanuel Bourg <ebo...@apache.org> > wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I'm currently working on the migration to Java 8 in Debian and several > > packages are broken due to the lack of invokedynamic support in BCEL 5.2 > > (the dreaded ClassFormatException: Invalid byte tag in constant pool: > > 18). I think it's high time for a release. Even if the current code > > isn't perfect it's far better than BCEL 5.2 (there are ~60 issues fixed > > in JIRA). > > > > The code on the trunk isn't fully compatible with the previous release > > due to the addition of methods to the Visitor interface. By Commons > > standards we would usually change the package, however I think it's safe > > to keep the org.apache.bcel package as is. The Visitor interface is > > never implemented directly, I have found that projects always extend the > > EmptyVisitor class instead. I've rebuilt several projects using BCEL > > (ant, ant-contrib, clirr, clirr-maven-plugin, ha-jdbc, jbossas, jibx, > > mx4j, xalan, maven-shared-jar, robocode) and they all worked fine with > > the current snapshot. > > > > The code on the trunk is numbered 6.0, are we ok with that or should we > > use 5.3 for the next release? > > > > Emmanuel Bourg > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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 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
