Shouldn't some Groovy mentions in your email be replaced by GPars mentions? :-)
2015-06-03 18:14 GMT+02:00 Russel Winder <[email protected]>: > As far as I am aware Groovy 1.x is in maintenance mode only. It is > intended to release 1.3.0 as soon as it is possible to release first a > snapshot and then a release via Artifactory/Bintray. Some progress was > made on this at the Gr8Conf 2105 Hackergarten, but I am not sure a > snapshot release is yet possible to act as a release candidate. > > Groovy 2.x is JDK8-only: all the ParallelArray (extra166y) bits have > been ripped out, to be replaced with use of Streams. The idea is > preserve the best bits of the 1.x API, but to delete as much as > possible. Streams are after all usable directly from Groovy so GPars > only needs to provide the actors, dataflow, CSP, etc., not any of the > data parallel stuff. Actually the actors, dataflow, etc. is the bulk of > GPars, so in a sense we are doing a small prune, even if it is a big > change wrt data parallelism. > > Currently there is a jdk8 branch in the repository for the 2.x work. > > If anyone wants to chip in effort, the current issue is to find Stream > -based implementations for as many of the data parallel methods as > possible. Currently most of these return null, which means the tests > will not pass! > > -- > Russel. > > ============================================================================= > Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: > sip:[email protected] > 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: [email protected] > London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder > -- Guillaume Laforge Groovy Project Manager Product Ninja & Advocate at Restlet <http://restlet.com> Blog: http://glaforge.appspot.com/ Social: @glaforge <http://twitter.com/glaforge> / Google+ <https://plus.google.com/u/0/114130972232398734985/posts>
