Benson, please have a look at the road map in JIRA. The talk about Checkstyle 5.9 regards the 2.14 release that we have been preparing for during the last couple of weeks.
On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 2:52 PM, Benson Margulies <bimargul...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm confused. The current version of checkstyle is 6.2. Why is this > discussion about 5.9? Should we make a branch that requires java > whatever and is actually current? > > On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 8:44 AM, Dennis Lundberg <denn...@apache.org> wrote: >> There is some piece of code in Checkstyle 5.9 that uses Java 6+ >> classes/methods. I don't remember where, but it isn't covered by our >> integration tests. I'll have a look at it tomorrow evening, and see if >> I can produce an IT that catches it. >> >> Another thing that I have been thinking about is whether we should >> move maven_checks.xml out of maven-checkstyle-plugin and into a >> separate resource jar. The rationale being that we (the Maven project) >> will probably be stuck using maven-checkstyle-plugin 2.14 (for Java 5 >> projects) and 2.15 (for Java 6 projects). What happens when 2.16 is >> released and we want to change maven_checks.xml? >> >> >> On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 9:04 AM, Hervé BOUTEMY <herve.bout...@free.fr> wrote: >>> Le vendredi 9 janvier 2015 13:29:06 Dennis Lundberg a écrit : >>>> I've started going through the open issues and have found a problem >>>> that I need som help with. It turns out that Checkstyle 5.9 uses Java >>>> 6 classes, even though it is not mentioned in the release notes. How >>>> do we want to handle this? I see two possible options: >>>> >>>> 1. Make version 2.14 of the plugin require Java 6, and update it to >>>> use the latest available version of Checkstyle that runs on Java 6. >>>> >>>> 2. Revert the plugin back to Checkstyle 5.8 and release 2.14 of the >>>> plugin with a Java 5 requirement. After that release 2.15 of the >>>> plugin fairly straight away with a Java 6 requirement, and using the >>>> latest available version of Checkstyle that runs on Java 6. It should >>>> be noted that Checkstyle 5.8 does NOT work on Java 8 source code. >>>> >>>> Perhaps there are other alternatives? What do you think? >>> I just built and ran ITs with Checkstyle 5.9 on JDK5 without any issue: can >>> you check too? Since Checkstyle 5.9 supports Java 8 syntax, upgrading would >>> be >>> really great while keeping our plan for minimum Java version >>> This is key before releasing >>> >>> Everyting else I wanted to fix/improve for the next release is done >>> I'll be happy to vote on a release I'm not managing myself :) >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> Hervé >>>> >>>> On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 3:51 PM, Dennis Lundberg <denn...@apache.org> wrote: >>>> > Hi, >>>> > >>>> > I'd like to release version 2.14 of Maven Checkstyle Plugin. The main >>>> > motive for 2.14 is the ability to check Java 8 source code. >>>> > >>>> > According to the road map there are 5 unresolved issues scheduled for >>>> > 2.14. >>>> > >>>> > https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MCHECKSTYLE#selectedTab=com.atlassian.jir >>>> > a.plugin.system.project%3Aroadmap-panel >>>> > >>>> > If anyone is interested in fixing one or more of these for 2.14 now >>>> > would be a good time to do it. Just reply here with an estimated time >>>> > frame. If noone has the time for this now, I'll reschedule those >>>> > issues for 2.15, which will require Java 6. >>>> > >>>> > -- >>>> > Dennis Lundberg >>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org >>> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Dennis Lundberg >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org > -- Dennis Lundberg --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org
