BCEL 6 is ready to be released and it is binary compatible, that will fix clirr. I'll prepare the vote this week.
Emmanuel Bourg On July 27, 2014 10:18:51 AM CEST, Benedikt Ritter <brit...@apache.org> wrote: >Thanks for the pointer. How do you feel about pushing out a 5.3 that >only >contains the Java 8 fixes? > >B > > >2014-07-26 15:14 GMT+02:00 Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com>: > >> I think the trunk handles some or all of Java 8 now. See BCEL-174, >> BCEL-175. >> >> Gary >> >> >> On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 6:43 AM, Benedikt Ritter <brit...@apache.org> >> wrote: >> >> > Hi, >> > >> > when building [lang] with Java 8 I get the following error [1]: >Caused >> by: >> > org.apache.bcel.classfile.ClassFormatException: Invalid byte tag in >> > constant pool: 18 >> > >> > So it looks like Clirr is using a BCEL version that doesn't support >Java >> 8. >> > Can anybody tell me what the current state of BCEL is? We have >version 6 >> in >> > trunk. the latest release is 5.2. So I assume we're breaking BC. >Can we >> > release a fix for 5.2 that can handle Java 8? >> > >> > Regards, >> > Benedikt >> > >> > [1] https://paste.apache.org/khuq >> > >> > -- >> > http://people.apache.org/~britter/ >> > http://www.systemoutprintln.de/ >> > http://twitter.com/BenediktRitter >> > http://github.com/britter >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> E-Mail: garydgreg...@gmail.com | ggreg...@apache.org >> Java Persistence with Hibernate, Second Edition >> <http://www.manning.com/bauer3/> >> JUnit in Action, Second Edition <http://www.manning.com/tahchiev/> >> Spring Batch in Action <http://www.manning.com/templier/> >> Blog: http://garygregory.wordpress.com >> Home: http://garygregory.com/ >> Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory >> > > > >-- >http://people.apache.org/~britter/ >http://www.systemoutprintln.de/ >http://twitter.com/BenediktRitter >http://github.com/britter Emmanuel Bourg
