No. I would like to vote YES as this is almost what I proposed in the "release process" thread, but I think I'm going to have to vote NO as there are potential breaking changes in 2.5 (requiring Java 1.7) and 2.6 (switching to Parrot). Hopefully Parrot doesn't break anything, but I don't know if that can be asserted definitively at this point.
Keith > On Jan 31, 2017, at 3:37 AM, Cédric Champeau <cchamp...@apache.org> wrote: > > Hi guys, > > There are multiple conversations going on for weeks, and I think they are > going nowhere. We could discuss for months what's the best plan for Groovy, > without releasing anything. Here are the challenges that are waiting for us: > > 1. release a version of Groovy that integrates Groovy macros > 2. upgrade the minimal runtime required for Groovy to 1.7, which is required > to smoothly transition to higher requirements (and also, make our devs lives > easier) > 3. upgrade the minimal runtime required for Groovy to 1.8, allowing us to > drop the old call site caching and use indy Groovy everywhere > 4. integrate Parrot, which replaces the use of Antlr2 with Antlr4 > 5. compatibility with Jigsaw, aka "Groovy as a module" > > I would like to propose the following plan: > > - Groovy 2.5: integrates 1 and 2, to be released ASAP, we've been waiting for > this for too long > - Groovy 2.6: integrate 4, implying backporting Parrot to Java 7 > - Groovy 3.0: integrate 3 and 5. The only version with necessary breaking > changes (we have no choice here) > > This plan is, I think, a good compromise for all the requirements we have: > backwards compatibility, and making progress and not having too many > branches. An alternative would be to keep Parrot on Java 8, but as some of us > have said, this is incompatible with a soonish release. The drawback is that > Parrot has the risk of being a breaking change (it is, typically if people > implicitly depend on the old parser, which would be bad), so there's a risk > of not following semantic versioning. > > - [ ] YES, I approve the roadmap above > - [ ] NO, I do not approve the roadmap abobe beause... > - [ ] I don't mind, or this goes beyond what I can think of > > This vote is open for 72h, ending 9:30am CET, on Feb 3rd, 2017. >
