Btw, one of the ASM core committers is also an expert group member of the
JSR335 (java8/lambdas). So I suppose that if ASM isn't able to support
java8 bytecode yet, that should be fixable quite quickly.


2013/12/19 Stuart McCulloch <mccu...@gmail.com>

> On 19 Dec 2013, at 09:50, Kristian Rosenvold <kristian.rosenv...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > That's me being imprecise based on something I picked off google; i
> changed
> > the wiki.
> >
> > It would appear to me that the ASM based plugins are in for a decent bit
> of
> > work (at least shade seems to be). Some of them are using fairly old
> > versions of asm too, and I considered
> > porting shade to 4.2 to minimize diff up to 5.0.  Do you know anything
> > about the differences between asm 4.2 and 5.0 are significant in terms of
> > api breakage ?
>
> One of the key goals in ASM 4 was to improve backwards (binary)
> compatibility of releases going forwards:
>
>         http://asm.ow2.org/history.html
>
> So far I’ve found ASM 5 beta to be a drop-in replacement for ASM 4 from a
> client perspective, so +1 on moving those plugins up to 4.2 to begin with.
>
> ( then people can always try out ASM 5 beta by adding it as a dependency
> to the plugin declaration in the pom.xml )
>
> > Kristian
> >
> > 2013/12/19 Stuart McCulloch <mccu...@gmail.com>
> >
> >> On 19 Dec 2013, at 08:08, Kristian Rosenvold <
> kristian.rosenv...@zenior.no>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> I figured we could use the wiki page to eventually document for end
> users
> >>> which versions need to be used to solve known problems etc. While we're
> >>> still fixing them and we're still ea it's probably a good place for
> just
> >>> sharing knowledge, since general stuff will tend to get hidden in jira.
> >>> jMNG-5551 is good for keeping tabs on what's actually known :)
> >>
> >> Just wondering about the comment "Current ASM-5 beta not usable” - in
> what
> >> way is it not usable and has it been reported upstream?
> >>
> >>> Kristian
> >>>
> >>> 2013/12/19 Kristian Rosenvold <kristian.rosenv...@zenior.no>
> >>>
> >>>> I just created
> >>>> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/Java+8+Upgrade to
> >> track
> >>>> the status of java 8 migration "problems". This includes the bug
> number
> >> for
> >>>> the bugs.sun.com bug report I just filed yesterday that makes
> verifier
> >>>> break.
> >>>>
> >>>> Kristian
> >>
> >>
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