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Re: next GL version?

by James Lemieux :: Rate this Message:

I filled in the build.xml file with 1.9 as the next version number.

I think maybe, until we see 2.0ish kinds of features making their way into the GL codebase we should conservatively keep the next planned release as 1.9. What's a 2.0 kind of feature? Something like:

- deleted values on ListEvents everywhere...
- move types in ListEvents
- reworked ListEventPublisher / ListEventAssembler

Though I can't wait until we can start using 1.5 features everywhere in the code base. (particularly foreach, real var args, and autoboxing)

James

On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 12:25 PM, Rob Eden <rob@...> wrote:

I guess I'd like to flesh out these ideas for event delivery (the EventBus). It seems that many (most?) of the problems that are coming up on the user list these days are due to event ordering, etc. I don't know that we're going to find a perfect solution, but it might be the biggest need. Obviously this would be a 2.0 thing because I'm sure some API's would break.

Rob

On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 3:17 AM, Holger Brands <hbrands@...> wrote:

Hey Glaziers,

now that 1.8 is real, I just wanted to ask for your opinion
what the next version should be (1.9 vs. 2.0) ?

If we're directly heading for a 2.0 release, we should probably
create a 1.x branch for bugfixes.

Initial ideas for a 2.0 could be:
- drop migration kit and other deprecated code
- drop JDK 1.4 support (Sun J2SE 1.4.x EOL is October 30th, 2008)
- fully exploit JDK 1.5 capabilities throughout the code base
- make other changes that could break compatibility but are worth
the effort, for example removing automatic proxy wrapping in the
model adapter classes
...

On the other side, a 1.9 release could also make sense to
- finish some work that's not yet completed (providing deleted element for example)
- add minor new features without breaking compatibility
- review code base and deprecate things we want to change or drop in 2.0

What do you think?

Holger

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