Re: Thoughts on Groovy 4 and JDK 26/27 (and Groovy 5 with 27)

Paul King <[email protected]> Mon, 27 Jul 2026 20:21:16 +1000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.groovy.devel
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I have no problem with that bump but we'd need to set expectations
that we won't be doing future 5.0.X bumps. I don't think we have the
team size to handle 7 (soon), 6, 5.0, 5.1, 4.0, and 4.1 streams.

On Mon, Jul 27, 2026 at 7:38=E2=80=AFPM Jochen Theodorou <[email protected]=
> wrote:
>
> On 7/27/26 11:27, Paul King wrote:
> [...]
> > If we do remove, another option for versioning is to go 4.1.0 and
> > 5.1.0 as the next version numbers.
>
> I would go for that. The other solution would be a multi-version jar...
> not sure we want to open that can of worms.
>
> bye Jochen