Hi Martin,

Why not carrying on releasing these jira fixes on 2.3.x branches? Weld-1574 is useful. Do you plan to
WELD-1574 [3] - remove the dependency on Google Guava and reduce the footprint to Weld 2.3.x?

Many thanks,
Emily
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From:        Martin Kouba <mkouba@redhat.com>
To:        Antoine Sabot-Durand <antoine@sabot-durand.net>, "weld-dev@lists.jboss.org" <weld-dev@lists.jboss.org>,
Date:        21/07/2016 10:22
Subject:        Re: [weld-dev] Next stable version is 2.4.0
Sent by:        weld-dev-bounces@lists.jboss.org

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Dne 21.7.2016 v 11:18 Antoine Sabot-Durand napsal(a):
> Hi Martin,
>
> I find all this interesting , especially the back porting of WELD-1574.
> For this last point, does that means that Weld 2.4 will require Java 8?

No, 2.4 will still require Java 7.

>
> Antoine
>
>
> Le jeu. 21 juil. 2016 à 09:58, Martin Kouba <mkouba@redhat.com
> <mailto:mkouba@redhat.com>> a écrit :
>
>     Hi all,
>
>     we've just created the 2.4 branch on github [1].
>
>     Weld 2.4 will remain a CDI 1.2 implementation. We would like to do some
>     cleanup (e.g. remove deprecated classes from Weld SE), enhance the API
>     and also add some new features. See also the list of issues for
>     2.4.0.CR1 [2].
>
>     Weld team is also considering backporting WELD-1574 [3] - remove the
>     dependency on Google Guava and reduce the footprint. Let us know what
>     you think about this idea.
>
>     Martin
>
>     [1]
>     https://github.com/weld/core/tree/2.4
>
>     [2]
>     https://issues.jboss.org/projects/WELD/versions/12330683
>
>     [3]
>     https://issues.jboss.org/browse/WELD-1574
>
>     --
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>     Software Engineer
>     Red Hat, Czech Republic
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