26.03.2016, 18:45, "Emmanuel Bourg": > Hi Andrey, > > Le 26/03/2016 16:15, Ponomarenko Andrey a écrit : > >> I've just opened the new API changes tracker for Java libraries: >> http://abi-laboratory.pro/java/tracker/ >> >> As the first step I've prepared reports for a random set of libraries: >> Android, Berkeley DB JE, Commons Collections, Hadoop, log4j and SLF4J. >> >> The reports are generated by the new 1.5 version of the >> japi-compliance-checker tool. It's a big and useful update and it's highly >> recommended to update the tool if you are using it in your project: >> https://github.com/lvc/japi-compliance-checker >> >> I'd like to ask the community what other libraries would you like to see in >> the tracker? > > Thank you for japi-compliance-checker, I often use it to check the > compatibility when upgrading sensitive libraries. The Apache Commons > libraries aren't very interesting to track because they almost never > break the compatibility by policy (note that you should split > commons-collections and commons-collections4, these are two distinct > APIs that can coexist in the same classpath). Some libraries I'd like to > see in the tracker are BouncyCastle, ASM, CGLIB, Guava, Jetty, ICU4J, JNA. > > If I may suggest an improvement to the tool, it would be to compare two > jars specified by their Maven coordinates. Something like this: > > japi-compliance-checker org.apache.commons:commons-io 2.4 2.6 > > That would be a huge time saver.
Great idea! Thank you.
