On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 7:42 PM, sarahkm1972 <sarahkm1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> +100 to RERO. +1000 to release before we're all dead. It's been a decade > people. Just cut a release already. You can always cut another one later. > Stop with the excuses > > Whatever you want to call it - alpha, beta, RC, final, anything. Java 8 > users are left in a lurch. Compiling libraries is not a realistic solution. > As stated previously by others we would also have to patch and compile > libraries depending on BCEL and also figure the transitive dependency graph > for everything we use since we can't use Maven to do that due to BCEL not > being in Maven. This is a huge huge pain because we're big Scala users and > rely heavily on the Typesafe ecosystem which is dropping support for Java 7 > in all of its products and already has in Play Framework and Akka as well > as > others like its Config library. > You say "stop with the excuses" and then go on to list a whole bunch of excuses why its too much effort for you to build BCEL and test it. Yes it would be an effort - but it would be invaluable to have some pre-release testing and feedback and help to get it our faster. Niall > --S. > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://apache-commons.680414.n4.nabble.com/VOTE-Release-BCEL-6-0-based-on-RC3-tp4667129p4673474.html > Sent from the Commons - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > >
