On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Emmanuel Bourg <[email protected]> wrote: > Onkar Shinde a écrit : > >>> Currently we have two commons-collections packages in repository. >>> libcommons-collections-java - 2.x release >>> libcommons-collections3-java - 3.x release >>> >>> I browsed the upstream release archive and it looks like the last >>> release from 2.x was in 2002. So in my opinion we should migrate the >>> rdepends to libcommons-collections3-java. AFAIK, 3.x API is backward >>> compatible with 2.x. >>> >>> Let me know your comments. >> >> Any comments on this topic? > > I'm not sure it is fully backward compatible. There was a binary > incompatibility between 2.1 and 3.0 which was resolved in Commons > Collections 2.1.1. And some deprecated classes and methods were removed in > the 3.0 release. > > http://commons.apache.org/collections/compatibility.html > > Is it possible to know how many packages depend on the 2.x collections > package? It would be worth checking if they still compile after the > migration.
Following is the list of current rdepends of libcommons-collections-java. In my opinion if they compile fine with collections3 then there is no problem. libvelocity-tools-java libplexus-velocity-java libcommons-validator-java libcommons-launcher-java libcommons-dbcp-java libjasperreports-java libdoxia-sitetools-java checkstyle libbiojava1.7-java alien-hunter Onkar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
