[Building Sakai] Proposal: upgrade dependency versions in 1.0 kernel

[Jean-Francois Leveque]

+0.5 because I don't know the problems that each update will help fix

J-F

Nuno Fernandes a écrit :
> +1
> 
> On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 12:29 AM, Steve Swinsburg 
> <steve.swinsburg at gmail.com <mailto:steve.swinsburg at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
> 
>      > and close on 6months of local production use
> 
>     Normally I don't advocate new additions to a stable branch, but if
>     these upgrades alleviate problems and have been in production for 6
>     months then +1.
> 
>     cheers,
>     Steve
> 
> 
> 
>     On 11/05/2010, at 1:37 AM, David Horwitz wrote:
> 
>      > See bellow
>      >
>      > On 05/10/2010 05:07 PM, Matthew Buckett wrote:
>      >> On 10 May 2010 13:43, David Horwitz <david.horwitz at uct.ac.za
>     <mailto:david.horwitz at uct.ac.za>> wrote:
>      >>
>      >>> For the 2.7 release a number of kernel dependencies where
>     upgraded some
>      >>> time ago. Testing of 2.7 has indicated that these all seem
>     safe. The
>      >>> list can be seen here:
>      >>>
>      >>> http://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/KNL-105
>      >>>
>      >>> an includes:
>      >>> hibernate
>      >>> spring
>      >>> javax.mail
>      >>>
>      >> I think this broke some stuff in UserDirectoryService
>     (MimeEncode.base64()).
>      >>
>      >>
>      >
>      > There's a patch for uds in the issue linked to the javax upgrade
>     - that
>      > would be added at the same time.
>      >>> cglib
>      >>> commons-lang
>      >>> commons-fileupload
>      >>> commons-logging
>      >>>
>      >>> I would suggest that these now be applied to the 1.0.x kernel
>     series for
>      >>> 2.6, with the exception of the spring upgrade. Any objections?
>      >>>
>      >> To me this is a risk without any clear benefits. I would be
>     happy for
>      >> the versions in the 2.6.x to remain the same so that there
>     aren't any
>      >> surprises for people running the stable software.
>      >>
>      >> If there is a bug in one of the libs which affects Sakai that
>     can only
>      >> simply be fixed by upgrading then it would seems the sensible
>     route to
>      >> upgrade that lib to the newer version.
>      >>
>      >>
>      >
>      > There have definitely been people affected by bugs in some of these
>      > libraries and a number have performance issues). In the past we have
>      > been badly stung by not updating these. Notably in a file upload bug
>      > that caused the jvm to consume all system resources. Im proposing
>     this
>      > because I believe now the risk is small enough (based on the 2.7
>     testing
>      > and close on 6months of local production use) that this is
>     outwayed by
>      > the possible gains in subtle bugs, egde cases and performance issues.
>      >
>      > D
>      >
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