Re: ASM 4.0 RC2 released

On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 3:21 PM,  <[email protected]> wrote:
> as discussed on this mailing list, we decided to make the necessary changes to support backward binary compatibility right now, instead of in one or two years. This required some big, non backward compatible API changes in this new release candidate, compared to RC1 (mainly the replacement of interfaces with abstract classes). However, the goal of these modifications is that all future ASM versions will be backward compatible with ASM 4.0.

RC2 seems good to me. I've upgraded at work, and used it on a weekend
project without any problems.

A suggestion for 4.0: it'd be good to have sources for all the jars in
the Maven repository. Having source available in the IDE makes it much
easier to check documentation when using code-completion (or even
browsing the source to check something).

I realise that most ASM jars don't have debug info, so tracing through
ASM source in a debugger wouldn't work. But (unlike some other Java
libraries I could mention), ASM isn't a library that I frequently have
to trace through to investigate bugs, so no great loss there.

I accept that there's some scope for confusion if people expect to be
able to trace through the libraries, but for me at least, sources for
all jars would be an improvement over the current situation (using
asm-debug-all, even though I don't use a big chunk of it).

Regards,
Martin

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