Hi Emmanuel, why do we release it as BCEL 6 if it's binary compatible?
Benedikt 2014-07-27 11:59 GMT+02:00 Emmanuel Bourg <ebo...@apache.org>: > 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 -- http://people.apache.org/~britter/ http://www.systemoutprintln.de/ http://twitter.com/BenediktRitter http://github.com/britter
