On 2 August 2018 at 16:53, Mat Booth <mat.bo...@redhat.com> wrote:

>
>
> On 2 August 2018 at 07:53, Andreas Sewe <andreas.s...@codetrails.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Roland,
>>
>> > I just wanted to give a heads-up that the following bundles (and
>> > corresponding source bundles) are expected to be removed from the Orbit
>> > build towards 2018-09, for M3 [1].
>> >
>> > com.google.guava 15.0.0, 18.0.0 (use 21.0.0)
>>
>> Code Recommenders still uses Guava 15 and can't switch without doing a
>> major release, as Guava classes like ImmutableList and Optional are
>> unfortunately part of our public API. Switching to a new major version
>> of Guava would hence mean forcing all our clients to also switch, which
>> may not be possible.
>>
>> A major release, possibly moving from Guava Optional to Java 8 Optional
>> in our public APIs, would eliminate this problem for good, but we don't
>> have the resources to do that for 2018-09.
>>
>> Best wishes,
>>
>> Andreas
>>
>
>
> Here I might be able to help. That recommenders uses old guava has caused
> me a bit of headache in my downstream builds and I've been carrying some
> patches against recommenders for a while -- let me clean up the patches
> that we are carrying downstream and I will file a bug where we can discuss
> it further -- how does that sound?
>

Sorry for replying to myself. I filed two bugs to talk about it:

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=537624
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=537625
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