Got it, thanks for the info. Staying with 2.7.5 then. Just finished
moving to 2.7.6
for non-lift stuff yesterday, reverting... :)

On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 8:52 AM, David Pollak
<feeder.of.the.be...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 9:01 PM, Wilson MacGyver <wmacgy...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 11:44 PM, David Pollak
>> <feeder.of.the.be...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Lift (1.1-X and 1.0.1/1.0.2) is compiled against Scala 2.7.5  This is
>> > the
>> > version you should be using.
>> > Do not upgrade to 2.7.6  2.7.6 is a broken release.
>>
>> can you expand on that? Do you mean 2.7.6 is a broken release for using it
>> with lift, or 2.7.6 is just plain broken for scala development, and should
>> stick to 2.7.5?
>
> Both.
> EPFL took a single change off the 2.8 development branch and grafted it onto
> 2.7.5 without testing beyond the standard Scala tests, without any beta
> period, without any discussion on scala-internals, and without any notes to
> the various stake-holders in the Scala community.  The change seems to break
> existential types.  Lift will not compile with the change.  Code compiled
> with the change will likely not work with 2.7.5 and code compiled under
> 2.7.5 will have different pickling (serialization) of Scala-related metadata
> in the class files.
> So, stay as far away from 2.7.6 as you can.
>
>
>>
>> --
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>>
>>
>
>
>
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