[wildfly-dev] [POLL] 8.1 Patch Or Not

[Dimitris Andreadis]

IMO, if the patch is almost as big as the full distro itself, that kind of defeats the 
purpose. But you could provide both distros anyway and see from the download counts what 
people are actually interested in, and maybe get some feedback on the patch mechanism, itself.

/Dimitris

On 28/05/2014 23:23, Jason Greene wrote:
> So we noticed two problems with releasing the patch for 8.1.0.Final
>
> 1. JBoss Tools Issues - Due to the patching mechanism in 8.0.0.Final “disabling" jars, applying the 8.1 patch will lead to warnings, this is fixed in their upcoming beta2 test. We have also removed the jar “disabling”, so future patches do not have this problem.
> 2. It’s Big - Due to the breadth of change in this release, the size of the patch is only slightly smaller than the distro. We have a planned improvement to support finer grained, per-class deltas, which would greatly reduce the size, but its not worth holding the release over (IMO).
>
> So the big question is assuming the above do you want a patch file for 8.1, or just a full distro only this time, and we instead ship a patch in a future 8.x release (we are considering doing an 8.2 with the CDI update that was pulled out of 8.1 due to TCK rules)?
>
> If there is enough demand considering 1 & 2 I would be happy to release one.
>
> Thanks!
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> Jason T. Greene
> WildFly Lead / JBoss EAP Platform Architect
> JBoss, a division of Red Hat
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