> My 2 cents is that we could continue to support a 3.x branch and backport security fixes and fixes that would be generally useful to a wide community.
I could get behind back porting security fixes since they're fairly infrequent and small. Fully maintaining a branch would get tricky as the code bases diverge and merge. We already have a bandwidth problem with 1 code base. I'd rather spend my energy on improving what we have than keeping two trees in sync. Furthermore I think the audience for a 3.x branch is fairly small. Users stuck on Java 6 (read: large companies) are less likely to upgrade to new versions of POI, especially as we keep evolving the API. > As part of a possible 4.0 release, we should review the deprecated code to try and prune as much as possible. Agreed. With all the enum enhancements, CellType is one that's so engrained on our quick guide, on mailing lists, stack overflow questions and answers, and elsewhere that Nick suggested we wait til 4.0 to change Cell.getCellType() to return a CellType enum. Most of the rest of the enums added in the last few releases are less heavily found in 3rd party code that it was safe to do: 1. Add getXEnum() and deprecate getX() 2. Wait 2 releases 3. Change getX() to return an enum, deprecate getXEnum() 4. Wait 2 releases 5. Delete getXEnum(). See Bug 59836 https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59836 On Jul 9, 2017 19:13, "pj.fanning" <fannin...@yahoo.com> wrote: I favour more regular non-beta releases generally and like the idea of a 4.0 release. I'm pretty neutral on the JRE version support. My employers mandate JRE 1.8 usage and I think, for security reasons, this is the right approach. My 2 cents is that we could continue to support a 3.x branch and backport security fixes and fixes that would be generally useful to a wide community. As part of a possible 4.0 release, we should review the deprecated code to try and prune as much as possible. -- View this message in context: http://apache-poi.1045710.n5. nabble.com/Java-6-support-tp5721373p5728121.html Sent from the POI - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@poi.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@poi.apache.org
