[hibernate-dev] Infinispan versions for Hibernate OGM

[Emmanuel Bernard]

looks good to me

> On 16 Dec 2015, at 14:04, Sanne Grinovero <sanne at hibernate.org> wrote:
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> we generally have been trying to target the versions of Infinispan
> provided by the WildFly version we're targeting for compatibility with
> a specific OGM release cycle.
> 
> I would like to change that, and for example now switch to the latest
> Infinispan 8.1.0.Final (rather than the one in WildFly 10 candidate
> release, which would be 8.0.2.Final).
> 
> Several reasons:
> 
> # shall not use the WildFly Infinispan distribution
>  in WildFly the specific Infinispan version being integrated is an
> implementation detail.
> People wanting to use Infinispan directly, or for other means than the
> ones addressed by the WildFly clustering features which are based on
> Infinispan (but don't expose it), should be encouraged to download the
> Infinispan modules from the Infinispan project. We should apply (and
> encourage) this practice too.
> 
> # pick our own version
>  it's obviously nicer for us to reserve ourselves the practical
> benefits of being able to pick our own version according to needs,
> rather than stick with wathever WildFly requires.
> 
> # we might have a need for latest Infinispan
>  probably no need to explain ;)
> I don't with us to wait for an app-server update cycle when we need an
> upstream patch.
> 
> # don't aim at a single WildFly version
>  while we're currently running integration tests with latest WildFly,
> I think it's desirable to use that as a testing bed for the modules we
> provide but not as a coupling factor for our dependency matrix.
> In other words, let's prepare OGM to be able to produce modules for
> different versions of the application servers (and not least other
> application servers although that's unrelated).
> Not least, the fact that the app server is sticking with some version
> shouldn't have an impact to all of our users who have no interest in
> this particular appserver at all.
> 
> Am I missing any important counter argument?
> 
> Thanks,
> Sanne
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