Well, if there are several incompatible changes, then I would change the package name.
On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 11:00 AM, Luc Maisonobe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > James Carman a écrit : >> >> Well then I might not make the jump to 2.0 then. That way, if we ever >> do make the jump to 2.0 (for API incompatibility reasons), we can >> change the package name. > > There were other reasons to jump to 2.0. Several incompatibles change will > be introduced and the features that were deprecated in 1.2 will be removed. > > Luc > >> >> On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 5:32 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> OK. The consensus seems to keep the original package name, so this is >>> what I will do. >>> >>> Thanks to all for your comments. >>> Luc >>> >>> ----- Mail Original ----- >>> De: "Rahul Akolkar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> À: "Commons Developers List" <dev@commons.apache.org> >>> Envoyé: Vendredi 16 Mai 2008 02:01:21 GMT +01:00 Amsterdam / Berlin / >>> Berne / Rome / Stockholm / Vienne >>> Objet: Re: [math] should version 2.0 be targeted to Java 5 ? >>> >>> On 5/15/08, Niall Pemberton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> >>>> On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 12:26 AM, Emmanuel Bourg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>> wrote: >>>> > sebb a écrit : >>>> > >>>> >> However AFAICS "jar hell" could still apply to those unknown >>>> projects, >>>> >> and needs to be avoided if at all possible. >>>> > >>>> > Well, the probability of jar hell with Commons Math is near zero, I >>>> would >>>> > not annoy all the users with a package change for a very hypothetical >>>> issue. >>>> > When you look at the dependencies on lang [1] or collections [2] you >>>> > understand why these components must adopt a very careful approach, >>>> but >>>> > [math] is nowhere near this situation. >>>> >>>> >>>> +1, IMO the approach chosen should be decided on a >>>> component-by-component basis and I don't have a problem with breaking >>>> compatibilty in a major version of Math, without changing package >>>> names, if thats what the Math devs want to do. >>>> >>> <snip/> >>> >>> I'll third that. >>> >>> -Rahul >>> >>> >>>> Niall >>>> >>>> >>>> > Emmanuel Bourg >>>> > >>>> > [1] http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/commons-lang/commons-lang/2.1 >>>> > [2] >>>> > >>>> http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/commons-collections/commons-collections/3.2 >>>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> 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] >> > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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]
