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

Thu May 29 08:29:03 EDT 2014

> On May 29, 2014, at 3:56 AM, Tomaž Cerar <tomaz.cerar at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Lets do both.
> 
> For many users I think having nice upgrade tool will help them move to newer version. Even if upgrading is mostly just copying standalone.xml over...
> 
> Btw, what if we would provide two part patch? first one that would fix the jar invalidation and then proper one for 8.1 upgrade?
> 

I like the optional fix up script idea a bit better because it would correct all of the old "disabled" jars. Although the 2 patch solution would have to be used in a future release for updating to the new format. We also should look into the possibility of dynamic bootstrapping of new patch behavior in the patch itself. This would allow us to introduce new formats without an intermediary patch. 

> 
>> On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 11:23 PM, Jason Greene <jason.greene at redhat.com> 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!
>> --
>> Jason T. Greene
>> WildFly Lead / JBoss EAP Platform Architect
>> JBoss, a division of Red Hat
>> 
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