It's absurd to have a library where no released version works on any supported version of Java. End of story
On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 7:04 PM, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 12 March 2015 at 01:25, Niall Pemberton <niall.pember...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > 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. > > It's not even necessary to build BCEL in order to test against trunk, > because you can get BCEL snapshots from the Apache Maven Snapshot > repository. > If the CI system is working, the SNAPSHOTs wll be updated regularly > when there have been commits. > If it appears that the snapshot has not been built for some while > since the last commit (e.g. 24 hrs), ask here and someone can prod the > CI system (or just deploy another snapshot). > > Of course such builds have no guarantees, and should not be relied on > long-term (they may be replaced at any time), but for test purposes > they will do. > > > 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 > >> > >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > >
