On Wed, 08 Jan 2003, Conor MacNeill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Stefan Bodewig wrote:
>> There are about 15 fixed bugs compared to 1.5.1, but nothing big >> IMHO. > > Ah, OK, I remember seeing 1.5.2 being thrown about and thought there > would be movement there soon - my mistake. Not your mistake, mine 8-) The classloader change in 1.6 (which package we force to be loaded via the system clasloader) has been ported to the 1.5 branch - and it is really important for people running JDK 1.4. We had several Gump failures related to it when Sam switched to 1.4. > This does make me wonder, however, why we are continuing to work on > 1.5 branch at all. If the bug fixes are not critical, why not call > 1.5 done and work on getting 1.6 done with those fixes in place. Waiting for the critical bugfix and then not having to track down the less critical fixes as well? > Either that or we decide there are some things to fix that would > warrant a 1.5.2 release and focus on getting that done. The jar > update bug has a lot of votes :-) Yep. I'll send a different mail on this issue. This is my itch that I want to see sufficiently scratched before we release 1.5.2. Stefan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
