Hello Charles,

as I said in response to Jochen, I'm fine with giving japicmp a try. But
for tools as important to us as clirr, I've come to the conclusion that it
would be better to have them at the ASF.

Benedikt

Charles Honton <c...@honton.org> schrieb am Mi., 15. Juni 2016 um 06:45:

> According to clirr-maven-plugin pom, it depends on
> net.sf.clirr:chirr-core:0.6 (released on 11-Feb-2006)
> org.apache.bcel:bel:5.2 (release on 13-Jun-2006)
> net.sf.clirr:chirr-core:0.6 had an excluded dependency on bcel:bel:5.1
> (released 22-Nov-2005 and modified 20-Oct-2010)
>
>
> Yes, japicmp has single developer and nine contributors.  However, that
> single developer has done a great job keeping up to date.  Japicmp is
> Apache licensed <https://github.com/siom79/japicmp/blob/master/LICENSE>.
> (Clirr does not mention any license in pom) Should Martin Mois decide to
> quite maintenance, the code is available both at GitHub <
> https://github.com/siom79/japicmp> and Maven Central <
> http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/com/github/siom79/japicmp/japicmp/0.8.0/>.
> (Clirr source jar is not at Maven Central)
>
> Why do we find it so hard to take components or tools off the shelf?  Why
> are we jumping to invest time re-writing when our efforts could better be
> spent on our focus products?
>
> regards,
> chas
>
>
> > On Jun 13, 2016, at 11:20 PM, Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 11:18 PM, Benedikt Ritter <brit...@apache.org>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Jochen Wiedmann <jochen.wiedm...@gmail.com> schrieb am Di., 14. Juni
> 2016
> >> um 08:14 Uhr:
> >>
> >>> On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 8:11 AM, Benedikt Ritter <brit...@apache.org>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Charles Honton <c...@honton.org> schrieb am Di., 14. Juni 2016 um
> >> 07:29
> >>> Uhr:
> >>>>
> >>>>> Now that lang is compiled with java6, clirr is broken.  Do we want to
> >>>>> update to a more modern report like japicmp <
> >>>>> https://siom79.github.io/japicmp/>?
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> The site build is only broken when build with Java 8. It should be
> >>> working
> >>>> with Java 6 and Java 7.
> >>>
> >>> Lets give the new kid on the block a try. (But don't forget, to
> >>> report, what the experiences are.)
> >>>
> >>
> >> okay
> >>
> >>
> >>>
> >>> Clirr is basically unmaintained, since years. A replacement would
> >>> definitely be valuable.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Could happen to japicmp sooner or later, since it seems to be
> maintained by
> >> a single person at the moment. I don't like pulling in dependencies like
> >> this. But you're right if Clirr is unmaintained.
> >>
> >
> > The Clirr Maven plugin is maintained though and there has been talk of
> it's
> > dependency on BCEL being updated.
> >
> > I've not looked under the plugin's hood but if the plugin is fiddling
> with
> > BCEL then perhaps it is doing in more than just wrapping Clirr?
> >
> > Gary
> >
> >
> >> Benedikt
> >>
> >>
> >>> Jochen
> >>>
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