Paul King created GROOVY-10643:
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Summary: CLONE - Consolidation of VMPlugin didn't account for API
calls in the Groovy runtime
Key: GROOVY-10643
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GROOVY-10643
Project: Groovy
Issue Type: Bug
Affects Versions: 4.0.0
Reporter: Paul King
Assignee: Paul King
Fix For: 4.0.1
A change in Groovy 3 (see GROOVY-9380 for details) was to consolidate classes
from the legacy Java5 through Java7 classes into Java8. Those classes are part
of Groovy's plugin mechanism and aren't meant to be used directly. The legacy
classes were deprecated in Groovy 3 and removed in Groovy 4. This was an
intended breaking change for anyone using those classes directly. Remember the
change is transparent for anyone using the plugin mechanism as intended. A
subset of those classes are also directly called by the bytecode for Groovy 2.5
compiled code with Indy enabled, i.e. were part of the Groovy runtime for that
version. Removing backwards compatibility for those classes was unintended.
This would mostly impact folks who might create applications from a mixture of
dependencies, e.g. maybe a helper classes, library or plugin compiled under
Groovy 2.5 with Indy enabled and then used in conjunction with another
application compiled under Groovy 4. This will be fixed in the next point
release.
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