> Remember that many users haven't migrated from 1.2 yet. This. IMHO it will become much harder to persuade people to make a jump to 2.x if there a 3.x in the pipeline that will break BC - they'll just way for 3.x
Greg On 16 September 2016 at 15:45, Mikael Ståldal <mikael.stal...@magine.com> wrote: > I don't think we should start working on 3.0 any time soon, unless we have > to in order to support Java 9. > > And I think we should make a 2.7 release really soon, and then more 2.x > releases after that. > > Remember that many users haven't migrated from 1.2 yet. > > On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 8:36 PM, Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Ah, yes, Java 9... it just seems that we need to more clearly define what >> is public vs. not and an SPI package seems like nice neat way to do that. >> That said, it's a lot of busy work and I am not 100% it is worth it. I am >> waffling. >> >> Gary >> >> On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 11:05 AM, Ralph Goers <ralph.go...@dslextreme.com >> > wrote: >> >>> I am nowhere near wanting to do 3.0. But we may want to do it for Java 9 >>> depending on how disruptive that is. That is one of the reasons I would >>> like to get moving on Java 9 asap. I have a feeling we may want to >>> continue the 2.x releases while 3.x is going just for that reason. >>> >>> Ralph >>> >>> On Sep 15, 2016, at 9:46 AM, Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>> Hi All, >>> >>> Should we start thinking about 3.0 where the main driver is to formalize >>> a Core SPI package? >>> >>> Doing this for 2.8 and break BC in Core would be too disruptive. >>> >>> Doing this for 2.8 and have a Core class implement a SPI interface where >>> the SPI interface inherits the old interface would be weird. >>> >>> Or, should we just keep on going as we have and keep Core BC a moving >>> target? >>> >>> We could wait to do more 2.x releases and accumulate more deprecated >>> code (Builders vs factory methods for example). >>> >>> Thoughts? >>> >>> Gary >>> >>> -- >>> E-Mail: garydgreg...@gmail.com | ggreg...@apache.org >>> Java Persistence with Hibernate, Second Edition >>> <http://www.manning.com/bauer3/> >>> JUnit in Action, Second Edition <http://www.manning.com/tahchiev/> >>> Spring Batch in Action <http://www.manning.com/templier/> >>> Blog: http://garygregory.wordpress.com >>> Home: http://garygregory.com/ >>> Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> E-Mail: garydgreg...@gmail.com | ggreg...@apache.org >> Java Persistence with Hibernate, Second Edition >> <http://www.manning.com/bauer3/> >> JUnit in Action, Second Edition <http://www.manning.com/tahchiev/> >> Spring Batch in Action <http://www.manning.com/templier/> >> Blog: http://garygregory.wordpress.com >> Home: http://garygregory.com/ >> Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory >> > > > > -- > [image: MagineTV] > > *Mikael Ståldal* > Senior software developer > > *Magine TV* > mikael.stal...@magine.com > Grev Turegatan 3 | 114 46 Stockholm, Sweden | www.magine.com > > Privileged and/or Confidential Information may be contained in this > message. If you are not the addressee indicated in this message > (or responsible for delivery of the message to such a person), you may not > copy or deliver this message to anyone. In such case, > you should destroy this message and kindly notify the sender by reply > email. >
