Hi, any objections against reverting the package rename in trunk back to org.apache.bcel ? (For reasons see below)
Benedikt ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Andrey Loskutov <losku...@gmx.de> Date: Di., 7. Juni 2016 um 17:55 Uhr Subject: Re: [BCEL] 5.3 is going to be messy To: <dev@commons.apache.org> Cc: Benedikt Ritter <brit...@apache.org> On Tuesday 07 June 2016 15:37 Benedikt Ritter wrote: > > > I propose we create the 5.x branch now. Those who want/need a compatible > > > release can work that out in that branch. All others can work on trunk to > > > get BCEL 6 out of the door with Java 7 and Java 8 compatibility. > > > > Sorry, IMHO the *only* reason to release 5.3 after many years *IS* the > > Java 7/8 compatibility. > > We (user) just want something stable we can use on a modern JVM (and Java > > 7 is already *obsoleted*!), nothing more. > > Before thinking about new API's, please just release something running on > > Java 7/8. > > > > So that's a word from our users. > > What now? Revert the Package rename in trunk back to org.apache.bcel and > finish that 5.3 release? I have no idea what's broken wrt to compatibility > because you cant compare with the ne coords anymore. Yes. Please undo "package rename" aka BCEL-222 thing first. This is an easy task (requires ~5 minutes in the IDE), see commit https://github.com/iloveeclipse/commons-bcel/commit/ae98757798ab54992a6e7a1cf6429a2a44e0e67c . After that we will see how bad/good the state is. I don't think the state is really bad, otherwise I wouldn't be able to create experimental port of FB in few hours. See https://github.com/findbugsproject/findbugs/issues/106 - the commits referenced there describe what I saw on breakage from the FindBugs side. Of course that is only from the FindBugs point of view. -- Kind regards, google.com/+AndreyLoskutov
