Lenny, you add your name to the "demand" list by voting on the issue at https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TAP5-2214
I've been playing with JDK 8 some myself and see a lot in there that Tapestry could benefit from. At some point (but not soon) we may need a JDK 8-specific branch to introduce API changes for lambda expressions, default methods, and other cool new toys. On Feb 1, 2014 12:35 PM, "Lenny Primak" <lpri...@hope.nyc.ny.us> wrote: > Thanks Bob for the explanation. > You can put my name of the list of 'demand' for this. > I am pretty sure that when JDK8 starts breaking T5.3, there will be a lot > more 'demanders' > > > On Feb 1, 2014, at 11:16 AM, Bob Harner wrote: > > > Lenny, > > > > As for whether ASM will be upgraded in the next version of 5.3, I > > don't see why not, if there is any demand for it. All the developer > > focus has been on 5.4, of course, so currently there doesn't seem to > > be a need for any 5.3.8 release. As always, that can change. > > > > As I understand it, ASM is "baked in" with a modified package name so > > that there isn't a risk of class conflicts with any other occurrences > > of ASM in users' applications and libraries such as Hibernate. Read > > the last sentence at http://asm.ow2.org/doc/faq.html > > > > On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 5:42 PM, Lenny Primak <lpri...@hope.nyc.ny.us> > wrote: > >> I am trying to find out about 5.3 specifically, not 5.4. > >> I am sure that 5.4 is going to be upgraded to ASM that's compatible > with Java 8 at some point, > >> but our projects are using 5.3, and we don't plan to upgrade to 5.4 for > various reasons. > >> So, if there are no plans for upgrading 5.3 to the new ASM, we need to > think about > >> alternate plans ahead of time. > >> > >> Also, is there a particular reason why ASM is 'baked in' to plastic, as > opposed > >> to just having a separate maven / gradle dependency on it? > >> Seems to be much easier to upgrade if it's a regular dependency rather > than jarjar'd. > >> > >> > >> On Jan 31, 2014, at 2:04 PM, Joachim Van der Auwera wrote: > >> > >>> I am currently using Tapestry 5.4 on Java8 by applying the patch given > in https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TAP5-2214. > >>> I have not (yet) found other issues when using Java8. > >>> > >>> Personally, I would like to see this patch applied, but I understand > that including a non-release version of ASM is not ideal. > >>> > >>> Kind regards, > >>> Joachim > >>> > >>> On 01/31/2014 07:44 PM, Lenny Primak wrote: > >>>> Is there a plan to update 5.3.x when Java 8 comes out? > >>>> Is it just the matter of the version of ASM that is used or is there > something > >>>> else that precludes 5.3.x to run on Java 8? > >>>> > >>>> Thanks > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tapestry.apache.org > >>>> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tapestry.apache.org > >>>> > >>> > >>> > >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tapestry.apache.org > >>> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tapestry.apache.org > >>> > >> > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tapestry.apache.org > >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tapestry.apache.org > >> > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tapestry.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tapestry.apache.org > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tapestry.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tapestry.apache.org > >
