On 13 March 2015 at 17:40, Sarah Murray <sarahkm1...@gmail.com> wrote: > It's absurd to have a library where no released version works on any > supported version of Java. End of story
Well, there are 2 solutions to that. 1) BCEL is abandoned/retired. 2) BCEL is updated to support recent versions of Java. > 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 >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
