java.bytecode (or similar) module?

[Remi Forax]

with my ASM hat,
as dalibor said, we are changing the cadence.

Specifically,
- since ASM4, ASM is fully backward compatible,
- we are also moving toward continuous deployment since September using more modern development tools, git, gradle, gitlab-ci and adding a bunch of new tests
- upcoming VM spec changes are developed in different branches [1, 2, 3] and we try to follow all VM specs modification proposed by the different OpenJDK projects, i'm personally an expert for the project Amber and Valhalla. 

regards,
Rémi

[1] https://gitlab.ow2.org/asm/asm/tree/CONDY
[2] https://gitlab.ow2.org/asm/asm/tree/NEST_MATES
[3] https://gitlab.ow2.org/asm/asm/tree/MINIMAL_VALUE_TYPE 

----- Mail original -----
> De: "dalibor topic" <dalibor.topic at oracle.com>
> À: "jdk-dev" <jdk-dev at openjdk.java.net>
> Envoyé: Mardi 14 Novembre 2017 09:39:51
> Objet: Re: java.bytecode (or similar) module?

> On 14.11.2017 08:36, Fridrich Strba wrote:
>> This was actually something puzzling me in the whole versioning
>> discussion: why on the earth increasing every 6 months a language source
>> and target levels unless some new features require it. Especially if the
>> version has 4 digits and one could intelligently use them. But did not
>> want to add my grain of salt into the cacophony.
> 
> It should be simpler to increase them on a regular cadence.
> 
> That way, everyone can plan for it, and have about 6 months to adjust.
> In the opportunistic case, it could be a much shorter runway if a
> language or VM change requiring class file format changes and
> consecutively a bump in the language/class file versions comes in late
> during the development of a new release.
> 
> cheers,
> dalibor topic
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