On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 1:02 PM, Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> 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. > Fat fingers! "I would help that they would be ready to step in with patches." -> "I would _hope_ that they would be ready to step in with patches." G > > Gary > > >> Benedikt >> > > > > -- > 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 > -- 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
