[infinispan-dev] Why no JGroups 3.5.0.Beta1 yet?

[Mircea Markus]

I am looking into this: ISPN-4170

On Apr 2, 2014, at 0:11, Sanne Grinovero <sanne at infinispan.org> wrote:

> In Hibernate Search we worked around the multicast problem by dropping
> the need for multicasts:
> essentially all our tests are now using SHARED_LOOPBACK and
> SHARED_LOOPBACK_PING.
> 
> But before that decision, Hardy had made the following interesting
> solution for our Maven build.
> Having agreed that this is not a JGroups bug but rather a weird
> configuration on apple machines, we'd expect apple users to have to
> fix their routing table; this would need some appropriate instructions
> in the usual places, but the patch below also provides for a user
> friendly error message to those who might not have set it up:
> 
> https://github.com/hferentschik/hibernate-search/commit/d207ba088f8bec5d09bbcf77c9b4fdd6571034ef
> 
> We choose for the simplicity of the in-JVM loopback tests as we build
> on top of Infinispan, and trust you guys to deal with the network
> complexities, but I think Hardy's solution might be a good fit to be
> applied to Infinispan?
> 
> Cheers,
> Sanne
> 
> 
> On 24 March 2014 23:47, Sanne Grinovero <sanne at infinispan.org> wrote:
>> I'm wondering what the plans are around updating JGroups. I'd like to
>> update Search to use the latest JGroups 3.5.0.Beta1, but:
>> - no good for us to strive ahead of Infinispan as we need to test
>> them all aligned
>> - there's an "interesting" situation around JGRP-1808: doesn't work
>> on a Mac unless you reconfigure your system for proper multicast
>> routes
>> 
>> I'm hoping someone who cares about it to work on Mac to take ownership
>> of it, as it doesn't affect me but it's quite annoying for other
>> contributors.
>> 
>> There are many interesting performance improvements in this release,
>> so I'm surprised it wasn't eagerly adopted.
>> 
>> Sanne
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Cheers,
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Mircea Markus
Infinispan lead (www.infinispan.org)