Re: [groovy-user] Groovy 1.1-beta-3 released, RC-1 and 1.1-final around the corner

At some point, yes, it should be automatically uploaded, if all goes
well -- but I know we've had problems with that in the past, so I'm
crossing my fingers!

On 9/21/07, Martin Gilday <martin.lists@...> wrote:
> Great news, looking forward to trying it out.
> Will it be uploaded to the central Maven repo under the same grouping as
> that used by groovy-maven-plugin?
> http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/codehaus/groovy/groovy-all/
>
>
> ----- Original message -----
> From: "Guillaume Laforge" <glaforge@...>
> To: "Groovy User" <user@...>, "Groovy JSR"
> <jsr@...>, "GroovyDev" <dev@...>,
> user@...
> Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 01:47:19 +0200
> Subject: [groovy-user] Groovy 1.1-beta-3 released, RC-1 and 1.1-final
> around the corner
>
> Dear Groovy friends,
>
> I've blogged about the new here:
> http://glaforge.free.fr/weblog/index.php?itemid=222&catid=2
>
> and there:
> http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GROOVY/2007/09/20/Groovy+1.1-beta-3+released%2C+RC-1+and+1.1-final+around+the+corner
>
> But here it is:
>
> Groovy 1.1-beta-3 is there, paving the way for an RC-1 in the
> following weeks, and if all goes well, for 1.1-final in October, right
> in time for the Grails eXchange conference that takes place in London.
> This conference will also be the opportunity for the Groovy developer
> team to meet for the fourth Groovy Developer Conference! With Groovy
> 1.1 released by then, it'll be time to think about what's going to
> happen for the next major version of Groovy.
>
> Before going through the new release, let me recap some of the nice
> things that have been happening lately around Groovy:
>
>     * JetBrains released a second milestone to the wonderful Groovy &
> Grails IntelliJ IDEA plugin, so be sure to check it out, as you'll
> feel at ease developing Groovy with all the bells and whistles of your
> beloved IDE. You've never programmed Groovy and Grails with so much
> pleasure.
>     * IBM's ProjectZero team is also helping us improving the Eclipse
>     plugin.
>     * Sun gave us access to a nice server beast so we can conduct some
> high-concurrency load testing on Groovy.
>
> So what's in this release you may wonder? Well, there are a few nice
> novelties, but they should be the last ones before 1.1.
>
> First of all, Alex Tkachman, along with Jochen, worked very hard on
> improving the performance of Groovy. On some micro-benchmark seen on
> the blogosphere, we even got a 100% improvement. Of course, depending
> on your usage of Groovy, your mileage may vary, but let me
> congratulate Alex for this great achievement.
>
> Now regarding new features:
>
>     * The last mile of Java 5 related feature is included: you can use
> and define enums in Groovy.
>     * The closure and map coercion to interfaces mechanism has been
> extended to work on concrete classes too.
>     * The ternary operator can be shortcut to simplify a != null ? a :
> "default value" into a ?: "default value". We call it the Elvis
> operator -- a beer for those who guess why we've chosen that name.
>     * In the dynamic space, Graeme Rocher has been continuing
> enhancing and improving the ExpandoMetaClass and has added some new
> methods like methodMissing(), respondsTo() or hasProperty(). Don't
> forget to check the documentation and the child pages.
>     * It is now possible to customize the variable resolving strategy
> in closures (not yet documented), so that you can decide whether you
> want to the resolution to go to the delegate first or only, to the
> closure itself, or to the owner.
>     * Jason Dillon has been working on improving the good old Groovy
> Shell (groovysh). It is still a work-in-progress, so by default, it is
> not activated, but you may try it by setting a NEWSHELL environment
> variable to a dummy value. Some completion is there thanks to JLine,
> ANSI color makes things more friendly on most platforms (Windows being
> the exception as always), and the driving idea behind those evolutions
> was getting rid of the infamous "go" command.
>     * Romain Guy, on his side, along with the help of Danno Ferrin and
> Andres Almiray. have polished the Groovy Swing Console look'n feel.
>     * One last nugget, some improvements have been worked on to allow
> a better integration between the groovyc and javac Ant task letting
> you use the javac Ant task as a sub-element of the groovyc Ant task --
> however, for big projects with a lot of classes, it may be pretty
> hungry for memory.
>
> With all that, it's time to give the usual links. Apart from those new
> features or improvements, we've closed a fair amount of bugs too, if
> you want to have a closer look at what we've worked on, you can have a
> look at the JIRA issues closed for beta-3.
>
> You can download Groovy at the usual place: Joachim Bauman is updating
> the Windows native installer (which also contains Antti Karanta's
> native launcher for Windows) and he should make it available in the
> following days.
>
> One last closing word: the documentation of the website is available
> too, and over those past months, the documentation climbed to about
> 900 pages worth of PDF export! Even bigger than the fine GinA lady!
>
> Keep Groovying, thanks to all the developers and contributors for
> their help, and stay tuned for RC-1 and 1.1 pretty soon!
>
> --
> Guillaume Laforge
> Groovy Project Manager
> http://glaforge.free.fr/blog/groovy
>
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