On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 10:26 PM, Dan Fabulich <d...@fabulich.com> wrote: > The the API in the "java5" branch is backward compatible; the generics and > varargs are erased at compile time. Of course, the code has to be compiled > with target=1.5, but on a Java 1.5 VM you could swap it in and not notice > the difference. > > If that lets us call it "dbutils 1.3" and avoid extra branching work, that'd > be great.
Calling it 2.0 (and thus changing the package name) does give you more freedom, too (remove some clutter, simplify the API, etc.). Let's not forget that. Of course, that could be done post-varargs/generics. I'm not completely familiar with the API, but usually when you introduce a varargs method, you're replacing an existing array method along with a one, two, and three-argument method. I don't think those sort of changes are backward compatible (existing code would have "pointed" at the two-argument method for instance). Again, I don't know that's the case, but just wanted to make sure. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
