On Mon, 2017-03-27 at 23:57 +1000, Paul King wrote: > Hi, it's still a little while away but we'll soon begin the work on > what will be called Groovy 3 or Groovy 4 - the exact version number > is > potentially up for further debate depending on how other upcoming > Parrot back port work pans out but we are not asking for feedback on > that right now.
Some of us are already using Groovy 3.0.0. ;-) > This new version of Groovy will have the new Parrot parser merged. > We're also planning to require JDK8 and it might have some other > breaking changes depending on how things pan out. There has been > discussion in the past that Apache Groovy might (should?) change the > Maven coordinates to have group org.apache.groovy rather than > org.codehaus.groovy. Previously we have spoken about not doing that > before some major release point. The Groovy team is now interested in > your feedback as to whether this new version might be the right time > to make that change. I am all for requiring JDK8 for Groovy 3 *AND* getting rid of the build of two lots of artefacts. Either we go with indy or we don't, I sugegst that Groovy 3 is the right place to go with only indy and drop the previous stuff. If the indy codes are slower then we fix it. > Obviously, we'll need to publicise the change to make sure people can > find the new versions but we are particularly interested in feedback > on whether anyone would be adversely affected by such a change. > > Comments welcome, > I am always willing to make comments. Actions less likely. ;-) Well unless it is GPars and Gant anyway. -- Russel. ============================================================================= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: rus...@winder.org.uk London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder
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