Gary Gregory wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 12:44 PM, Benedikt Ritter <brit...@apache.org>
> wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I had a brief look at the state of BCEL wrt doing a last 5.x release.
>> Well, it feels like that is going to be a mess:
>>
>> - We have @since 6.0 annotations all over the code.
>> - We have same deprecated classes - why if the code is currently in the
>> shape for the 6.0 release, there should be no deprecated stuff
>> - We have chances.xml which are talking about the next big 6.0 release.
>> - We have renamed package coordinates which make it hard to generate a
>> Clirr report.
>>
>> This will all have to be resolved before we can do the 5.3 release. I'm
>> currently wondering what might be the best way to push out the 5.x
>> release. I think we should create the 5.x branch ASAP, so that the way is
>> free for work on the important stuff in trunk. Hopefully this will enable
>> us to implement the missing bits for Java 8 support and get the 6.0
>> release out of the door soon.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
> 
> It seems like we are stuck in the middle b/w 6.0 and 5.3.
> 
> How about letting bcel6 stand and finish 6.0? This makes Sebb's recent
> work a bit of a waste but might make migrating from 5.2 easier anyway.
> 
> We can do the best we can for bcel6. We can do more clean ups and so on.
> 
> Some users will migrate, others can be asked to provide patches to 5.2 for
> a 5.3.
> 
> Then we can gather patches for a 100% BC 5.3. If 5.2 users care that much
> for 5.2 instead of migrating, I would help that they would be ready to
> step in with patches.

+1

Cheers,
Jörg


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