Thanks Bob for the explanation. You can put my name of the list of 'demand' for this. I am pretty sure that when JDK8 starts breaking T5.3, there will be a lot more 'demanders'
On Feb 1, 2014, at 11:16 AM, Bob Harner wrote: > Lenny, > > As for whether ASM will be upgraded in the next version of 5.3, I > don't see why not, if there is any demand for it. All the developer > focus has been on 5.4, of course, so currently there doesn't seem to > be a need for any 5.3.8 release. As always, that can change. > > As I understand it, ASM is "baked in" with a modified package name so > that there isn't a risk of class conflicts with any other occurrences > of ASM in users' applications and libraries such as Hibernate. Read > the last sentence at http://asm.ow2.org/doc/faq.html > > On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 5:42 PM, Lenny Primak <lpri...@hope.nyc.ny.us> wrote: >> I am trying to find out about 5.3 specifically, not 5.4. >> I am sure that 5.4 is going to be upgraded to ASM that's compatible with >> Java 8 at some point, >> but our projects are using 5.3, and we don't plan to upgrade to 5.4 for >> various reasons. >> So, if there are no plans for upgrading 5.3 to the new ASM, we need to think >> about >> alternate plans ahead of time. >> >> Also, is there a particular reason why ASM is 'baked in' to plastic, as >> opposed >> to just having a separate maven / gradle dependency on it? >> Seems to be much easier to upgrade if it's a regular dependency rather than >> jarjar'd. >> >> >> On Jan 31, 2014, at 2:04 PM, Joachim Van der Auwera wrote: >> >>> I am currently using Tapestry 5.4 on Java8 by applying the patch given in >>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TAP5-2214. >>> I have not (yet) found other issues when using Java8. >>> >>> Personally, I would like to see this patch applied, but I understand that >>> including a non-release version of ASM is not ideal. >>> >>> Kind regards, >>> Joachim >>> >>> On 01/31/2014 07:44 PM, Lenny Primak wrote: >>>> Is there a plan to update 5.3.x when Java 8 comes out? >>>> Is it just the matter of the version of ASM that is used or is there >>>> something >>>> else that precludes 5.3.x to run on Java 8? >>>> >>>> Thanks >>>> >>>> >>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tapestry.apache.org >>>> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tapestry.apache.org >>>> >>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tapestry.apache.org >>> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tapestry.apache.org >>> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tapestry.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tapestry.apache.org >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tapestry.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tapestry.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tapestry.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tapestry.apache.org
