Re: Any plans for a BCEL 5.3 release?

Yes
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sian January" <[email protected]>
To: "BCEL Users List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 7:40 AM
Subject: Re: Any plans for a BCEL 5.3 release?


> Is there also a backwards compatability issue with implementors of Visitor
> needing to add some new methods?
>
>
> On 13/06/2008, Dave Brosius <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> 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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