Re: bug fix releases ...

2020-02-28 Thread Paul King
It is what we state in the roadmap (it was originally in the Groovy 3 roadmap but we ran out of time/resources): http://groovy-lang.org/releasenotes/groovy-4.0.html But agreed mg, we should make some more noise in user and dev mailing lists at some point soon - possibly once we have done a little

Re: bug fix releases ...

2020-02-28 Thread MG
It seems to me a clear "Groovy 4 will be indy only" message would enable everyone who potentially had to make some adjustments, do some testing, etc to set aside some time for this - and it has to happen at some point anyway. Cheers, mg On 26/02/2020 23:55, Paul King wrote: +1 to the idea of "

Re: bug fix releases ...

2020-02-26 Thread Paul King
+1 to the idea of "enabling indy by default" but, since our aim is for "indy only", I would be cautious of putting too much energy into steps that will possibly end up being wasted work. If our cli for the compiler already handles --indy=false (if we just flip the default value), that would seem a

Re: bug fix releases ...

2020-02-26 Thread Daniel.Sun
Hi Paul, How about enabling indy by default in the 4.0 alpha release? Cheers, Daniel.Sun - Apache Groovy committer & PMC member Blog: http://blog.sunlan.me Twitter: @daniel_sun -- Sent from: http://groovy.329449.n5.nabble.com/Groovy-Dev-f372993.html

bug fix releases ...

2020-02-25 Thread Paul King
We weren't planning another 2.4 release but there is a significant bug in 2_4_X which impacts Spock users using special characters in their method names, 2_5_X users are calling for partial JDK 14 support, and we already have some fixes in the 3_0_X stream that would be good to get out soon. So I t