+mark Mark, do any of your pending changes break binary compatibility? If so, do you mind sharing which do and which don't. It could be nice to release a 6.0 now and then release a 6.1 with your changes and any bug fixes for issues discovered in 6.0
Thanks, Ben On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 10:45 PM, Benedikt Ritter <brit...@apache.org> wrote: > 2015-02-19 5:11 GMT+01:00 Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com>: > > > On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 7:04 PM, Ben McCann <b...@benmccann.com> wrote: > > > > > Would it be possible to release 6.0 now and release Mark's patches as > 6.1 > > > or 7.0? I'm concerned it may be quite a long time before his patches > are > > > committed since they are not actively being reviewed and there is no > > > activity on them for the past couple weeks. > > > > > > There is little downside to frequent releases in my experience. > > Infrequent > > > releases on the other hand can be a source of frustration as it means > it > > > can be quite difficult to use the code that has been committed. > > > > > > +1 > > > > If those changes don't imply breaking binary compatibility we can include > them in 6.1. > > > > > > Gary > > > > > > > This is the > > > exact reason the node.js community was splintered and the io.js fork > was > > > created. While end users can easily build from source it can become > > > extremely difficult when there are multiple transitive dependencies > > relying > > > on the library. Users end up having to maintain patched versions not > only > > > of BCEL but of the libraries that depend on BCEL which means there can > be > > > quite a bit of overhead. As the length of time between releases grows > the > > > number of custom patches each user has to separately maintain in each > > > library depending on BCEL grows. Right now it has been nine years. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Ben > > > On Feb 10, 2015 1:53 AM, "Ben McCann" <b...@benmccann.com> wrote: > > > > > > > Great, thanks for the update! > > > > > > > > Btw, for those not familiar with which issues those are, here's a > list > > of > > > > the ones Mark raised that are not yet resolved: > > > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BCEL-79 > > > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BCEL-195 > > > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BCEL-196 > > > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BCEL-197 > > > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BCEL-198 > > > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BCEL-199 > > > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BCEL-200 > > > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BCEL-201 > > > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BCEL-202 > > > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BCEL-205 > > > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BCEL-206 > > > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BCEL-208 > > > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BCEL-209 > > > > > > > > Thanks! > > > > -Ben > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 11:32 PM, Emmanuel Bourg <ebo...@apache.org> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > >> Le 09/02/2015 06:29, chengas123 a écrit : > > > >> > > > >> > BCEL really needs the 6.0 release to be cut or it will no longer > be > > > >> > compatible with any supported version of Java. Would anyone be > able > > to > > > >> cut a > > > >> > new release? > > > >> > > > >> I will once the issues raised by Marks Roberts are addressed. > > > >> > > > >> Emmanuel Bourg > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > > > >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > > >> > > > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > about.me/benmccann > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > 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 > -- about.me/benmccann
