On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 5:28 PM Paul King <pa...@asert.com.au> wrote: > > > Hi everyone, > > I plan to do a beta-2 of 3.0.0 in a few weeks and then hopefully we'll start > the ramp down to final with one or more RCs. When we get to the RCs stage, > I'll make a 3_0_X branch. At this stage I don't foresee a 3.1 version but we > can certainly do one if desired/needed. So, I'll make master Groovy 4 at that > point. > > What do people think about changing our maven coordinates with Groovy 4 from > org.codehaus.groovy to org.apache.groovy?
Huge +1 to that! > Also, if you have anything you'd particularly like to see in Groovy 4, please > discuss. I'll have a slide on potential things in Groovy 4 in my gr8conf talk > next week. I'd like to include as many sensible ideas as possible to make use > of the opportunity to garner feedback on what our users are looking for. > > Some of the things currently on my list: > * improved module support (including split package final steps) > * further invoke dynamic improvements (including deferred merge to indy only) > * stream-based replacements for XmlSlurper et al that'd be great to have. > * groovydoc rework (assuming we manage to finish porting the current > groovydoc to 3) > * improved built-in type checking extensions (@NonNull et al) > > Let me know what is on your lists of things you'd like to see. Thanks, Roman.
