Because it's a major released with many new features, it deserves a version bump.
Emmanuel Bourg On July 27, 2014 12:08:55 PM CEST, Benedikt Ritter <brit...@apache.org> wrote: >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 Emmanuel Bourg
