Just out of curiosity, would it be possible to maintain a single API and have separate implementation JARs? Or are there plans to change method signatures as well (such as to add generics or NIO support)? If the method signatures remained the same but the internal implementations were updated it might be possible to give users a more easily pluggable update to IO.
Regards, Mark Fortner On Feb 8, 2008 8:07 AM, Gary Gregory <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ag, let's not have /both/ io and io2, this gets messy. > > Thank you, > Gary > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Behalf Of James Carman > > Sent: Friday, February 08, 2008 5:50 AM > > To: Jakarta Commons Developers List > > Subject: Re: [io] 2.0 Moving to minimum of JDK 1.5 > > > > So, you are suggesting having part of a release in the o.a.c.io > > package and the other part in the o.a.c.io2? It seems rather > > inconsistent, but I guess it would work. Isn't that going to get > > ugly with 3.x and 4.x releases adding to the mix? > > > > On 2/8/08, Jukka Zitting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > On Feb 6, 2008 1:51 PM, Niall Pemberton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > So the changes are pretty minimal for IO - question is are these > > > > incompatible changes with generics being erased? If not then perhaps > > > > we can do this without breaking anything. > > > > > > +1 If there are cases where we can't avoid breaking backwards > > > compatibility, then let's use the name2 pattern on individual classes > > > or interfaces instead of the entire o.a.c.io package. There are large > > > parts of Commons IO that don't need to change when upgrading to Java 5 > > > and I don't see why a client that only uses those parts should be > > > affected in any way by the upgrade. > > > > > > BR, > > > > > > Jukka Zitting > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Mark Fortner blog: http://www.jroller.com/phidias
