Re: Any plans for a BCEL 5.3 release?

A potential open issue is that existing user code might be expecting to 
process 'unknown' attributes, that are now coming in as first class 
annotations. Therefore that client code will fail until changes are made. I 
meant to look into this, to see if this was indeed true but haven't gotten 
to it yet. As long as we document this, i guess it's ok, although maybe 
folks will be surprised about this change in a point release, i don't know.

--dave
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Martin van den Bemt" <[email protected]>
To: "BCEL Users List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, June 13, 2008 7:37 AM
Subject: Re: Any plans for a BCEL 5.3 release?


> Just encouraging people to get involved..
> As Simon already said, the resources to review patches are pretty limited, 
> so it would be good the
> hear on how to suite Apache Harmony the best. What target date do you have 
> in mind for the Harmony
> release ?
>
> Mvgr,
> Martin
>
> Sian January wrote:
>> I would certainly be happy to test a release candidcate.  Martin, I'm a
>> little confused - are you saying you think there's more work needed 
>> before a
>> release candidate could be considered, or just encouraging people to get
>> involved in general?
>>
>> Matthew - I think the normal thing for Apache projects is to submit a 
>> patch
>> via JIRA, although anyone else please correct me if that's not the case 
>> for
>> BCEL.
>>
>>
>> On 12/06/2008, Matthew Wilson <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Hello all,
>>>
>>> I'm interested in getting involved with BCEL, particularly if I can
>>> help get 5.3 out.  I've checked out the head from svn, and have
>>> noticed a few things that need fixing.  What's the best way I can
>>> help?  Should I submit a patch?
>>>
>>> (I'm also subscribed to the dev group.)
>>>
>>> Kind regards,
>>> Matthew
>>>
>>> 2008/6/12 Martin van den Bemt <[email protected]>:
>>>> I am probabaly not the best person to answer this, since I never have
>>> written any code for bcel.. If
>>>> you have any interest to get active on BCEL, that would I think be 
>>>> great
>>> (Torsten ?)
>>>> Mvgr,
>>>> Martin
>>>>
>>>> Sian January wrote:
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm just wondering if there are any plans for a 5.3 release in the 
>>>>> near
>>>>> future?  I am working on Apache Harmony and currently using BCEL 5.2 
>>>>> to
>>>>> develop pack200, but I would really like to upgrade so that I can use
>>> the
>>>>> Java 5 attribute classes that are missing in 5.2.  However the 
>>>>> preferred
>>>>> route in Harmony would be to take a released version if at all 
>>>>> possible
>>> (or
>>>>> at least a release candidate).  I noticed in the mail archive that 
>>>>> there
>>> was
>>>>> talk of producing a release candidate in January or February of this
>>> year,
>>>>> but I can't see anything on the download page, unless I'm missing
>>> something.
>>>>> Thanks in advance,
>>>>>
>>>>> Sian January
>>>>>
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