On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 7:04 PM, Ben McCann <b...@benmccann.com> wrote:
> Would it be possible to release 6.0 now and release Mark's patches as 6.1 > or 7.0? I'm concerned it may be quite a long time before his patches are > committed since they are not actively being reviewed and there is no > activity on them for the past couple weeks. > > There is little downside to frequent releases in my experience. Infrequent > releases on the other hand can be a source of frustration as it means it > can be quite difficult to use the code that has been committed. +1 Gary > This is the > exact reason the node.js community was splintered and the io.js fork was > created. While end users can easily build from source it can become > extremely difficult when there are multiple transitive dependencies relying > on the library. Users end up having to maintain patched versions not only > of BCEL but of the libraries that depend on BCEL which means there can be > quite a bit of overhead. As the length of time between releases grows the > number of custom patches each user has to separately maintain in each > library depending on BCEL grows. Right now it has been nine years. > > Thanks, > Ben > On Feb 10, 2015 1:53 AM, "Ben McCann" <b...@benmccann.com> wrote: > > > Great, thanks for the update! > > > > Btw, for those not familiar with which issues those are, here's a list of > > the ones Mark raised that are not yet resolved: > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BCEL-79 > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BCEL-195 > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BCEL-196 > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BCEL-197 > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BCEL-198 > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BCEL-199 > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BCEL-200 > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BCEL-201 > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BCEL-202 > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BCEL-205 > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BCEL-206 > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BCEL-208 > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BCEL-209 > > > > Thanks! > > -Ben > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 11:32 PM, Emmanuel Bourg <ebo...@apache.org> > wrote: > > > >> Le 09/02/2015 06:29, chengas123 a écrit : > >> > >> > BCEL really needs the 6.0 release to be cut or it will no longer be > >> > compatible with any supported version of Java. Would anyone be able to > >> cut a > >> > new release? > >> > >> I will once the issues raised by Marks Roberts are addressed. > >> > >> Emmanuel Bourg > >> > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > >> > >> > > > > > > -- > > about.me/benmccann > > > -- E-Mail: garydgreg...@gmail.com | ggreg...@apache.org Java Persistence with Hibernate, Second Edition <http://www.manning.com/bauer3/> JUnit in Action, Second Edition <http://www.manning.com/tahchiev/> Spring Batch in Action <http://www.manning.com/templier/> Blog: http://garygregory.wordpress.com Home: http://garygregory.com/ Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory
