In the "gee that took a lot longer than expected", I'd like to announce my rough plan to release abcl-1.5.0 in the next week.
The biggest change in the implementation will be the dropping of Java 5 support since there is no longer a freely redistributable JDK5 implementation (it went with the Sun set…) to run the GPL'd ABCL upon.
We will endeavor to ensure that Java 6 continues to be supported as long as the openjdk6 is actively maintained.
As always, comments and patches solicited.
Yers in CONS, Mark
Milestones ==========
Drop Java 5; ensure Java [678] work well.
ABCL-CONTRIB ------------
ABCL-BUILD
Unified build system (using UIOP; able to install and use Ant, Maven, and others via interactive restarts)
ABCL-INTROSPECT
Vastly improved support for Java object introspection (Used via as yet unreleased SLIME patches https://github.com/easye/slime.git)
CL:DISASSEMBLE works "out of the box" with JAD (if installed on PATH), or Objectweb
ABCL-AIO
Package arbitrary run-time dependencies (both Java and Lisp) in 'abcl-aio.jar' for customized deployment scenarios
ABCL-CONTRIB semantics described
(UNIMPLEMENTED) Bootstrap the config mechanism across the network if a local abcl-contrib source tree cannot be located.
JSS
optimizations & features to support dynamic introspection
ABCL-ASDF
Robust Maven support