It’s the other way around - it was protected in 6.4.1 and we need it to be 
public or else there is no way to manipulate annotations.  Without that we're 
dead.

Mark

(There was never a pr because I could never get anybody to say it was okay. )

-----Original Message-----
From: Gary Gregory [mailto:garydgreg...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, June 1, 2020 6:46 PM
To: Commons Developers List <dev@commons.apache.org>
Subject: Re: [bcel] Anything pending for a 6.4.2 release?

If something is public in 6.4.1, we cannot change that. Basically, we cannot 
break BC.

Gary


On Mon, Jun 1, 2020 at 9:44 PM Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Did I miss a PR? I do not see an open PR from you.
>
> Gary
>
> On Mon, Jun 1, 2020 at 7:54 PM Mark Roberts <mar...@cs.washington.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> I'm happy to do that - but what about my requested changes to 
>> src/main/java/org/apache/bcel/generic/FieldGenOrMethodGen.java?
>>
>> 123c123
>> <     protected void addAnnotationEntry(final AnnotationEntryGen ag) //
>> TODO
>> could this be package protected?
>> ---
>> >     public void addAnnotationEntry(final AnnotationEntryGen ag) // 
>> > TODO could this be package protected?
>> 139c139
>> <     protected void removeAnnotationEntry(final AnnotationEntryGen ag) //
>> TODO could this be package protected?
>> ---
>> >     public void removeAnnotationEntry(final AnnotationEntryGen ag) 
>> > //
>> TODO
>> > could this be package protected?
>> 155c155
>> <     protected void removeAnnotationEntries() // TODO could this be
>> package
>> protected?
>> ---
>> >     public void removeAnnotationEntries() // TODO could this be 
>> > package protected?
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Gary Gregory [mailto:garydgreg...@gmail.com]
>> Sent: Monday, June 1, 2020 4:30 PM
>> To: Commons Developers List
>> Subject: Re: [bcel] Anything pending for a 6.4.2 release?
>>
>> Hi Mark,
>>
>> May you please try the latest from git master and see how that goes? 
>> I've merged PR 39 and 40.
>>
>> Gary
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 1, 2020 at 5:15 PM Mark Roberts 
>> <mar...@cs.washington.edu>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > In order to support Java 11 in our tools set we needed to update BCEL.
>> > Hence, we made a private release (marked as version 6.4.2) that 
>> > contained the following changes:
>> >
>> > Issue 333 - pull request 39
>> > Issue 334 - pull request 40
>> > Made AnnotationEntry methods public instead of protected.
>> >
>> > I sent at least two rounds of email on the latter item, the most 
>> > recent in February of this year which drew no response.
>> >
>> > We would really like to see these three changes in an official 6.4.2.
>> >
>> > Thank you,
>> > Mark Roberts
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: Gary Gregory [mailto:garydgreg...@gmail.com]
>> > Sent: Saturday, May 30, 2020 7:23 AM
>> > To: Commons Developers List
>> > Subject: [bcel] Anything pending for a 6.4.2 release?
>> >
>> > Mark and all:
>> >
>> > I see a few fixes in git master for the 6.4.2 release. Is there 
>> > anything else?
>> >
>> > I am just taking stock of some components what could be useful to
>> release.
>> >
>> > Gary
>> >
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