On Wednesday 11 October 2017 15:43:34 Jean-Baptiste Onofré wrote: > Yeah, but we postponed due to the Java9 issue in dependencies. > > We are focused on 4.1.3 right now, but 4.2.0.M1 should happen just after.
Having milestones regularly would help to fix issues one by one (or at least in small units) when doing major upgrades – the upgrade from 3 to 4 was a pain which I really would like to avoid when upgrading to 4.2. So having a current milestone without (breaking) changes for Java 9 is much appreciated. Thanks, O. > Regards > JB > > On 10/11/2017 03:41 PM, Oliver Lietz wrote: > > On Wednesday 11 October 2017 15:21:52 Jean-Baptiste Onofré wrote: > >> Hi OLiver, > > > > Hi JB, > > > >> The idea is to cut a Milestone1 release as soon as we have a rough Java9 > >> support. > > > > well, 4.2.0.M1 was planned for second week of August... ;) > > > > Regards, > > O. > > > >> Regards > >> JB > >> > >> On 10/11/2017 03:19 PM, Oliver Lietz wrote: > >>> On Wednesday 11 October 2017 15:00:41 Guillaume Nodet wrote: > >>>> The point that makes me raise this problem is that the karaf default > >>>> distribution uses the Apache versions of xerces and xalan. Fwiw, the > >>>> latest xerces release is from 2011 and the latest xalan from 2014, so > >>>> they're not the most active. In particular, xalan latest release does > >>>> not > >>>> implement jaxp 1.4. > >>>> > >>>> One additional point is that those libraries stuff is broken on Java 9, > >>>> so > >>>> one option would be to remove it alltogether which bring us much closer > >>>> to > >>>> Java 9 support ;-) Seriously, I'm not sure I want to spend too much > >>>> time > >>>> allowing pluggability for specs/implementations while the only real > >>>> implementation provider is the JDK itself. That's really a lot of work > >>>> for > >>>> no real benefit. > >>>> > >>>> In addition, the default distribution still install some "legacy" > >>>> features > >>>> such as aries-blueprint, shell-compat, etc... > >>>> > >>>> So here's a list of propositions for 4.2: > >>>> * remove all libraries for specs / impls from apache-karaf distro > >>>> * remove support for endorsed / ext libraries in the <library> > >>>> element > >>>> > >>>> and wherever used > >>>> > >>>> * remove aries-blueprint and shell-compat from default distro > >>>> * remove a few features from the karaf-minimal distro. I'm not sure > >>>> which > >>>> > >>>> one exactly, but I think we should get the zip under 10 Mb. Maybe only > >>>> keeping jaas, shell, feature, ssh, bundle, config, deployer and log, > >>>> also > >>>> removing equinox / logback bundles... > >>>> > >>>> Thoughts ? > >>> > >>> +1 > >>> > >>> And again, I would like to see some milestones before going final/GA to > >>> move Apache Sling to 4.2 ASAP. > >>> > >>> Thanks, > >>> O.
