I'm not sure we should rush this... this my be the way to jar hell. But I'm not using BCEL in my projects so I can not really tell if it's a problem.
2014-04-25 14:57 GMT+02:00 Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com>: > 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 > -- http://people.apache.org/~britter/ http://www.systemoutprintln.de/ http://twitter.com/BenediktRitter http://github.com/britter
