Re: next GL version?

>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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