Re: BeanShell alternatives (was Re: Status ofprojectand adding 1.5 generics)

"Toomas Römer" <[email protected]> Fri, 26 Dec 2008 04:14:53 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.beanshell.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi

I was referring to the 24h policy but I guess it is not that black and white.

Toomas



On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 3:53 AM, fschmidt <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> Bugzilla from [email protected] wrote:
>>
>> From the thread I can say that the fschmidt bsh2 fork is a bit too
>> scary for us. The approach of everybody getting their stuff in is too
>> experimental. We're looking for more of a maintenance mode with
>> bugfixes and only features that would have Java compatibility in mind.
>> We're also interested in compiling for Java 1.4 as long as possible.
>>
>
> Just to be clear, the BeanShell2 approach is not "everybody getting their
> stuff in".  Proposed features should wait for discussion before being
> implemented.  And I review all code changes.  BeanShell2 is fully Java
> compatible.  No changes that reduced Java compatibility would be accepted.
> If you look at the list of issues, you will see that most changes are bug
> fixes, and a few are enhancements that don't reduce Java compatibility.
> BeanShell2 is more stable than BeanShell, with many bug fixes and no new
> bugs introduced that I know of.  I use BeanShell2 in production code.
> BeanShell2 doesn't support Java 1.4 because using Java 1.5 allowed the code
> to be greatly simplified, but I did suggest adding back Java 1.4 support
> here http://code.google.com/p/beanshell2/issues/detail?id=9 if anyone wants
> to do it.
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