Re: [Camel 3 discussion] Components releases

[Matt Pavlovich <ma...@gmail.com>]

-1 (non-binding)

I agree with Jon and Claus here. I think there is way more downside-- we already have trouble explaining to users that you can't mix camel-core 2.8.0 with camel-jms 2.7.1 and camel-jetty 2.12.0.  IMHO, additional "meaning" behind a version number will only further complicate things for first-time users.

If you know how to apply a patch and build a custom version for yourself, you can just solve this on your own. Additionally, folks can leverage commercial support to get the same thing. That would seem to narrow the list of folks that would benefit from this to:

 "Folks that do not have commercial support, do not know how to apply a patch on their own AND know that a patch exists to fix their issue. "

My $0.02, but seems like a small audience to me. 


On Feb 21, 2013, at 8:26 AM, Jon Anstey <ja...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I wouldn't imagine these separate component releases would be able to have
> differing dependency versions anyway. So no win there. We would get into
> the situation of having multiple versions of the same lib being used across
> Camel.  That is one of the nice things about releasing everything at once,
> most of the time we can align the dependency versions.
> 
> I don't yet like the idea of releasing the components separately either,
> sounds like it would be a lot of work for little gain. Maybe in the future
> we will need this but I don't think we need it now. I'm with Christian on
> postponing this discussion to a later 3.x release.
> 
> 
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 8:22 AM, Henryk Konsek <he...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>> If the goal is to deliver fixes to users,
>>> why not increase the release frequency of micro releases ?
>> 
>> Micro releases don't include new features added to the components. Nor
>> support updates of the version of the dependencies.
>> 
>> --
>> Henryk Konsek
>> http://henryk-konsek.blogspot.com
>> 
> 
> 
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