Groovy

[James Page]

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On 13/01/12 13:06, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> On Friday, January 13, 2012 11:40:06 AM James Page wrote:
>> Hi Brian
>> 
>> On 11/01/12 19:34, brian.thomason at gmail.com wrote:
>>> I saw the thread concerning the Debian auto-syncs, and the
>>> groovy issue caught my eye.  We recently created a groovy-1.7
>>> package for the same reasons you're contemplating creating a
>>> 1.8 package, as eucalyptus still doesn't yet work properly with
>>> 1.8. (though it is in the plans to fix in the near feature)
>>> 
>>> I'm just here to add my two cents (maybe just one cent) that
>>> I'd much rather see a 1.8 package for groovy allowing the 2.0
>>> to remain since this is an LTS and at some point during its
>>> supported life, we'll likely move to it.
>> 
>> I think we need to be careful as to what the 'default' version
>> of groovy is as this will have had the most amount of testing
>> during the development cycle; I think that should be 1.8.5 as
>> this is current stable - I have no objection to having groovy 2.0
>> in the release but bearing in mind its current release status
>> this should be optional - i.e. through having a groovy-2.0
>> package rather than changing the groovy package to 2.0.0.
>> 
>> We have a similar challenge with Java - 6 will be the default but
>> 7 is available in a separate package IF you want to use it.
> 
> The groovy package is already 2.0.0, so we can't give it a lower
> number.

I appreciate that Scott - but we can do a 2.0.0~beta2+isactually1.8.5
hack to switch it back and revert the accidental sync from
experimental (see [0] as to why sticking with 1.8.x is probably a good
option at this point in time).

Cheers

James

[0]
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-release/2012-January/000676.html

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James Page
Ubuntu Core Developer
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