Re: [orbit-dev] ASM 6.0_BETA and Oxygen.1

[Roland Grunberg <rgrunber@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2017-08-30 at 00:18 +0000, Evgeny Mandrikov wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> Correct me if my knowledge is outdated, one of the goals for Oxygen.1 - is support for Java 9. And so there was some demand on ASM library with support of Java 9 [1]. While some workarounds were suggested [1], maybe demand is still there? ASM 6.0_BETA has been released, and finally arrived into Maven Central repository [2]. I suppose there won't be any changes in classfile format as JDK reached ramp down phase, so this version won't become broken/obsolete as it was the case with alpha version. While there were some difficulties with repackaging of it for Orbit, seems that I managed to quickly overcome them.
> 
> So question is - is there demand in it for Oxygen.1? Or it is simply too late [3] and better to not rush and instead deliver into Oxygen.2? And I apologize for raising this question so late - still a newbie in processes/time-boxes here and it was a vacation time and then time to catch-up on everything.

I think it's too late for Oxygen.1, especially given today's release
date for our contribution. However, even if that weren't the case, and
we did have it in the release, it's unlikely it would be adopted by
projects for their Oxygen.1 release as it hasn't had any time to sit in
their development branches (I don't see any CQs for the 6.0 Beta
either). A similar issue happened for Bug 521295 [1].

I think if there's interest in adoption by projects, we should aim for
Oxygen.2 getting the CQs needed and pushing in the content.

Cheers,
-- 
Roland Grunberg

[1] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=521295#c2