asm4 has java7++ support - asm3 not.
LieGrue, strub >________________________________ > From: Jean-Louis MONTEIRO <[email protected]> >To: [email protected]; Mark Struberg <[email protected]> >Sent: Monday, 27 May 2013, 9:40 >Subject: Re: asm4 in xbean > > > >Out of curiosity, what are the objectives of such a change? >I mean, is there any important improvments on ASM4 we cannot miss? >Is ASM 3 end of life? > > >Jean-Louis > > > > > >2013/5/27 Mark Struberg <[email protected]> > >Hi! >> >>A small discussion which popped up on IRC regarding asm4: >> >>Preclusion: ASM3 and ASM4 are _not_ binary compatible but use the same >>packages. >>For preventing some classpath clashes this xbean-asm-shaded package got >>created. This was ASM3 so far. >> >>When moving up to ASM4 we should thus change the package we shade it in, e.g. >>to org.apache.xbean.asm4.* >>I think there is common agreement on this point, right? >> >>I've added a new module of xbean-asm4-shaded which uses ASM4 and shades to >>the aforementioned path. >>But what to do with the asm3 shade? >> >>We now have two options: >>Do we like to >> >>1.) keep both >> >> >>or do we like to >> >> >>2.) upgrade whole xbean to ASM4 and remove the old xbean-asm-shaded (and only >>keep xbean-asm4-shaded)? >> >>2.b) keep the xbean-asm-shaded artifactId but otherwise do like 2.). I perso >>don't like this much as it is not so explicit for users. >> >>LieGrue, >>strub >> > > > >-- >Jean-Louis > >
