[stringtemplate-interest] [antlr-dev] should I finally release ST 2.3?

[Kunle Odutola]

Hi,

> > Ok, september 6th, I'm releasing 2.3 ST.  I'm calling a code freeze
> > right now unless somehow has a serious bug for me to fix. :)
> >
>
> Perhaps this is a litle late but, getting rid of the static members that
> form part of the API (particularly on the StringTemplateGroup class) would
> be very nice indeed.
>
> I am aware that some locking code has been added to 2.3 to mitigate
> multi-threading issues. I am also aware that this would be a breaking
change
> (to ease the transition we could for instance add a new
> StringTemplateManager class and deprecate StringTemplateGroup - i.e.
> StringTemplateManager will eventually _replace_ StringTemplateGroup).
>
> If it is indeed too late, this should be a feature for ST 3.0....

Deferring this to the next version works better for me. I'd rather not (and
won't have the time anyways) do anything drastic with ST# in the short term.
I'll have a look at the locking code again just to make sure I haven't done
anything obviously stupid.

As for release dates, shouldn't ST released be delayed for the ANTLR 2.7.7
release?. Would be sad if the antlr binaries bundled with ST were out of
date (with respect to latest ANTLR) only a couple weeks after ST was
released...

Kunle