Re: GPars and versions of Groovy

2018-03-06 Thread Jim Northrop
Thanks to you for this - Does this mean that GPars will no longer work on JDK1.7 ? What is the minimum jdk that we require for GPars, please ? Thx Jim > On 6 Mar 2018, at 18:04, Russel Winder wrote: > > On Tue, 2018-03-06 at 16:43 +, Kerridge, Jon wrote: >> Hi, > > Hi Jon, > >> I am hav

Re: Gradle build updates

2017-12-10 Thread Jim Northrop
Good morning Cedric Wanted to ask if the removal of the jdk9 version of groovy-all jar will also mean that all us stuck on jdk1.7 will not have newer versions of groovy features? It would seem i would need to revise my gradles to include needed dependencies that groovy-all used to have but not n

Re: identifying low-hanging fruit tasks for the community

2017-05-03 Thread jim northrop
+1 for Daniel & Paul's idea sometimes my few spare hours can be devoted to improving Groovy to everyone's benefit but we need an easier way to identify low-hanging fruit *;-)* thx jim On 3 May 2017 at 02:23, Daniel Sun wrote: > Hi Paul, > > Apache Groovy really needs more help from communit

Re: Welcome John Wagenleitner to the Groovy PMC

2017-04-02 Thread jim northrop
Welcome aboard John! 👍 Sent from my iPad > On 2 Apr 2017, at 11:11, Daniel Sun wrote: > > Congratulations to John :) > > Cheers, > Daniel.Sun > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://groovy.329449.n5.nabble.com/Welcome-John-Wagenleitner-to-the-Groovy-PMC-tp5739577p5739582.html >

Re: Groovy getting Fat?

2017-03-18 Thread jim northrop
we try to keep GPars docs separate from GPars codebase and/or have the docs as separate downloadable if/when ppl want them. On 18 March 2017 at 13:21, CĂ©dric Champeau wrote: > Actually I missed that. I don't think we should ship the docs with the > distribution. Or, remove the docs zip altogeth

Re: GPars 1, 2, and 3

2017-03-16 Thread jim northrop
if you need more recent gpars documentation, i'm working on v2.0 of it that you can see here: http://gpars.aws.ie.a9sapp.eu the download page does show gpars 2.0 but it's just copies of 1.2.1 that i've renamed as placeholders. since jsr-166Y may be dropped there are a number of gpars features that

Re: Indy jars does not pull indy dependencies

2017-03-03 Thread jim northrop
Ok, fine. Let me know if u need any help 4 that one 😉 Sent from my iPad > On 4 Mar 2017, at 07:54, Paul King wrote: > > That has been the thinking Jim. Not before 3.0. > > >> On Sat, Mar 4, 2017 at 4:47 PM, jim northrop >> wrote: >> Just thinking, has a

Re: Indy jars does not pull indy dependencies

2017-03-03 Thread jim northrop
Just thinking, has any thought been given to changing our package name from org.codehaus.groovy to org.apache.groovy ? Would imagine this is a deal-breaker for backward compatibility, but maybe groovy 3.0 ? Sent from my iPad > On 4 Mar 2017, at 06:38, Paul King wrote: > > You are correct in o

Re: About a new annotation Groovydoc

2017-02-23 Thread jim northrop
So would dev.s need to add this annotation on EVERY method and property? Or only a single point in our groovy source? Thx Sent from my iPad > On 24 Feb 2017, at 07:18, Guillaume Laforge wrote: > > Instead of a compilation flag... what about a special GroovyDoc annotation? > > /** Foo Bar Baz

Re: Traits and protected properties

2017-01-25 Thread Jim Northrop
Russel is looking to build GPars V2.0 as JDK8+ later this year, so timing for Groovy 3 would be nice. Sent from my iPad > On 25 Jan 2017, at 16:43, CĂ©dric Champeau wrote: > > That's only ok once we generate Java 8+ class files only. Otherwise, you > create a language that, syntactically, sup

Re: [VOTE] Release Groovy 2.4.8 - take 3

2017-01-10 Thread jim northrop
> > On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 2:05 AM, Jim Northrop > wrote: >> Do we have an ETA date when we can chg our gradle configs to pull 2.4.8 >> please? >> >> Sent from my iPad >> >>> On 10 Jan 2017, at 14:06, Paul King wrote: >>> >>>

Re: [VOTE] Release Groovy 2.4.8 - take 3

2017-01-10 Thread Jim Northrop
Do we have an ETA date when we can chg our gradle configs to pull 2.4.8 please? Sent from my iPad > On 10 Jan 2017, at 14:06, Paul King wrote: > > [Hopefully for real this time] > > Dear community, > > I am happy to start the VOTE thread for a Groovy 2.4.8 release! > > This release includes

Re: Old Groovy Stuff on Maven2

2017-01-09 Thread Jim Northrop
Ok, so basically, we let sleeping dogs lie. ✅â˜ș Sent from my iPad > On 9 Jan 2017, at 10:59, CĂ©dric Champeau wrote: > > I see no good reason to remove any published artifact from a public > repository. This would cause more troubles than benefits (I look at you, > npm!). > > 2017-01-09 10:58

Re: About actor syntax for Groovy 3

2017-01-07 Thread jim northrop
Deep apologies for including this here, but when we look into the realms of parallel and concurrent processing, The Lawrence Livermore Institute has given us a super review of this topic here: https://computing.llnl.gov/tutorials/parallel_comp/ and gives us more food-for-thought as we implement sy

Re: About actor syntax for Groovy 3

2017-01-07 Thread jim northrop
Have found this Actor slideshow that may help us a bit ? http://www.slideshare.net/drorbr/the-actor-model-towards-better-concurrency On 7 January 2017 at 18:30, Jesper Steen Mþller wrote: > But > > Wouldn’t << be a natural choice which would work today? > > -Jesper > > > On 7 Jan 2017, at 18.16

Re: About actor syntax for Groovy 3

2017-01-07 Thread jim northrop
a nice idea ;-D On 7 January 2017 at 18:30, Jesper Steen Mþller wrote: > But > > Wouldn’t << be a natural choice which would work today? > > -Jesper > > > On 7 Jan 2017, at 18.16, Daniel Sun wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > As we all know, GPars is awesome in concurrency programming. How >

Re: About actor syntax for Groovy 3

2017-01-07 Thread jim northrop
Russel is working on GPars v2.0 so have asked him if this proposed change is do-able. On 7 January 2017 at 18:28, Andres Almiray wrote: > This is a slippery slope IMHO. > > Adding custom syntax support in core for GPars might sound like a good > idea given the fact that GPars is bundled with cor

Re: Build fail on JDK9

2016-12-19 Thread jim northrop
Will we be needing any doco changes for GPars 2.0 Russel ? On 19 December 2016 at 07:34, Russel Winder wrote: > On Thu, 2016-11-17 at 09:34 +, Russel Winder wrote: > > On Thu, 2016-11-17 at 09:26 +0100, Guillaume Laforge wrote: > > > You always forget to give me precise details! 😜 > > > JDK

Re: This was a surprise


2016-12-19 Thread jim northrop
hence why UK gov.want to hire 3,500 cyber-warriors ? ;-} On 19 December 2016 at 07:38, Russel Winder wrote: > On Sun, 2016-12-18 at 23:39 +0100, CĂ©dric Champeau wrote: > > This looks to be related to the recent changes by Paul for the new > > release > > process. Probably an overlook. > > I sus

Re: replacing jarjar by gradle shadow plugin

2016-10-28 Thread jim northrop
Merci Cedric- Was fighting this problem only yesterday, so your tip will save me beaucoup work. - Jim On 28 October 2016 at 09:03, CĂ©dric Champeau wrote: > Yes, the shadow plugin is also one of the most used Gradle plugins out > there. It's rock solid :) > > 2016-10-28 0:12 GMT+02:00 Guillaume L

Re: Release Apache Groovy 2.4.7

2016-06-04 Thread jim northrop
what does this mean to the avg hacker ? do we need to fix our kit anyway ? On 4 June 2016 at 10:50, Russel Winder wrote: > On Fri, 2016-06-03 at 16:20 -0700, Konstantin Boudnik wrote: > > +1 [binding] > > > > signature is ok > > sha1 is ok > > rat is ok > > builds and produces functional binarie

Re: http://www.groovy-lang.org/ down

2016-05-22 Thread Jim Northrop
Would love to see a mirror groovy doc.s site like say, groovy-lang.net so if one is down we have a spare. Doc.s publish would push to two targets but quite do-able. Sent from my iPad > On 22 May 2016, at 20:36, Mario Garcia wrote: > > Thanks for the explanation Guillaume. > > Just a quick qu

Re: http://www.groovy-lang.org/ down

2016-05-22 Thread Jim Northrop
Just did 2 DNS name changes this afternoon using goDaddy and worked flawlessly with no changed required to my internal server. So i'm a bit puzzled why this should be a biggie 😳 Sent from my iPad > On 22 May 2016, at 20:20, Guillaume Laforge wrote: > > And... it's back now! > > Sorry again f

Re: Getting started with contribution

2016-03-22 Thread jim northrop
Hi Andrey As you learn, could you pls keep our community updated on how to do this as we are in an 'apache' world now? Am guessing things have changed submission-wise. thx jim On 22 March 2016 at 06:11, Andrey Atapin wrote: > Hi folks, > > I’ve just logged an issue of Groovy SQL ( > https://issu

Re: More Antlr4-based Groovy parser status update

2016-03-11 Thread Jim Northrop
+1 👏 Sent from my iPad > On 11 Mar 2016, at 11:11, Guillaume Laforge wrote: > > By the way, I had a question (unrelated to the below thread, but related to > the grammar) :-) > > Do you keep the comment information? > It's something we've always said we should support, and it would tremendous

Re: [GitHub] groovy pull request: Link to MrHaki's blog in TupleConstructor jav...

2016-02-27 Thread jim northrop
was thinking of the same problem with our http://gpars.website. Do we include code samples or not ? or only links to external sites ? i like the idea of "live" code fragments within the doc.s that are compiled/tested as a part of document generation. this guarantees that code in our docs works as

Re: Preparing for a release

2016-02-16 Thread jim northrop
macher < > pascalschumac...@gmx.net> wrote: > >> Hi Jim, >> >> not sure what you mean by "String.metadata function"? >> >> If you like to contribute code to groovy open a jira ticket and send us a >> pull request. >> >> Cheers, &g

Re: Preparing for a release

2016-02-16 Thread jim northrop
send us a > pull request. > > Cheers, > Pascal > > Am 16.02.2016 um 10:18 schrieb jim northrop: > > Hi Pascal > could you pls point me to where i can donate a tiny piece of > String.metadata function ? > > thx > ​jim > ​ > > On 16 February 2016 at

Re: Preparing for a release

2016-02-16 Thread jim northrop
Hi Pascal could you pls point me to where i can donate a tiny piece of String.metadata function ? thx ​jim ​ On 16 February 2016 at 08:12, Pascal Schumacher wrote: > I fixed https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GROOVY-7742 by reverting as > Shils and John suggested in the discussion of > https

Re: Preparing for a release

2016-02-15 Thread jim northrop
could anyone pls point me to where i can donate a tiny piece of String.metadata function ? thx On 15 February 2016 at 22:12, Pascal Schumacher wrote: > Hi CĂ©dric, > > great news. :) > > I think before https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GROOVY-7742 should > be resolved, by either applying http

Re: Which file is the adoc for contributions?

2016-01-21 Thread Jim Northrop
LOL! Well apologies for the problem but when i wrote this doc. a few yrs ago, i did not put it into the correct repo as i did not know where. Much of the content i developed used ideas and observations about how Groovy got off the ground, it's structure and who was involved. I only just realize

Re: Where is Groovy's roadmap?

2016-01-20 Thread Jim Northrop
GR8 idea Paul. Would you have any thoughts for the GPars roadmap, pls.? See this: http://gparsdocs.de.a9sapp.eu/Roadmap.html - ideas welcome 😊 Sent from my iPad > On 20 Jan 2016, at 13:49, Paul King wrote: > > I think it would be good to have some kind of minimal roadmap in the > new document

Re: Disable auto-assignment of jira issues?

2016-01-16 Thread jim northrop
Do we have an up-to-date guidebook on how to contribute to Apache Groovy or is the process unclear ? thx On 16 January 2016 at 06:06, Guillaume Laforge wrote: > I've moved forward and removed all component leads, and set back the > default assignment to the "default project assignment" which is.

Re: Release 2.4.6 and 2.5.0-beta?

2016-01-06 Thread jim northrop
Was reviewing our roadmap@ http://gparsdocs.de.a9sapp.eu/Roadmap.html showing GPars 1.3.0 and 1.4.0 so if you think a point release@ 1.3.0 would be a good idea, am happy to update docs to reflect your decision. You will just need to let me know which URL to use to point our docs at, repo-wise.

Re: Release 2.4.6 and 2.5.0-beta?

2016-01-06 Thread jim northrop
Russel was looking into 1.3.0 snapshot but we need a host so we keep our GPars snapshot fore testing before it gets out the door. Schalk was looking@something like this a yr ago , think it was artifactory or bintray? Trying to nail this down now. On Wednesday, 6 January 2016, Guillaume Laforge w

Re: Release 2.4.6 and 2.5.0-beta?

2016-01-05 Thread jim northrop
1. Have done another doc upload. Spent time getting all the *.jar and *.zip files from gpars.org to include here: http://gparsdocs.de.a9sapp.eu/Download.html Did not do the RCs as limited disk space on CloudFoundry target. 2. i need to see what changes you want to make here: http://gparsdocs.d

Re: Release 2.4.6 and 2.5.0-beta?

2016-01-05 Thread jim northrop
Yes was just going to ask about that. Our website says GPars 1.3.0 is next as a SNAPSHOT pending a repository provider other than codehaus As i am working in that part of our documentation, it would be very easy to include stuff about 1.3.0-RC even if i just have placeholders in the material p