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 > >> > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org > >> > >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org > > -- Baptiste <Batmat> MATHUS - http://batmat.net Sauvez un arbre, Mangez un castor !