I think I'll commit it to 5.3.2; if it's problematic, we can back out
the change.  I don't think it will be, because any existing code will
be using only private fields anyway, largely not triggering the new
logic.

On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 1:33 PM, Bob Harner <[email protected]> wrote:
> As long as it is a 100% seemless upgrade for users, it sounds to me like a
> great feature to squeeze into 5.3.2.
>
> Bob Harner
> On Dec 23, 2011 1:07 PM, "Howard Lewis Ship" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I've been spending a couple of hours changing Plastic to allow fields
>> to be protected or package private (in other words, not public).  In
>> fact, fields that are not instrumented may even be public (this would
>> be final fields, or fields with @Retain).
>>
>> I have working tests inside Plastic; I'm about to convert a lot of
>> component fields from private to protected, which will make extending
>> existing Tapestry components a lot easier, as there will be reasonable
>> access to parameters defined in base classes.
>>
>> In any case, this is a really nice change that I was originally
>> slating for 5.4 but I'm feeling pretty confident about the code ... is
>> this too big a change to fit into 5.3.2?
>>
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