On 3 April 2011 20:35, Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 2:50 AM, Jörg Schaible > <joerg.schai...@scalaris.com>wrote: > >> Julius Davies wrote: >> >> >>> >> Nothing of this (including minimum requirement of Java 5) requires >> >>> >> automatically 2.x. As long as the API is *upward* binary compatible, >> >>> >> you can >> >>> >> improve the implementation using this features, adding new methods >> or >> >>> new >> >>> >> classes. Even generics can be added to some extend in a binary >> >>> compatible >> >>> >> way. This has been done for dbcp and there we deliver due to JDBC >> 3/4 >> >>> even >> >>> >> two versions. >> >>> >> >> >>> > >> >>> > I feels like jumping to Java 5 is important enough to go to calling >> it >> >>> 2.0. >> >>> >> >>> +1 agreed; it's a non-trivial change to introduce generics. >> >>> >> >>> > We could keep it 1.6 until something breaks... >> >>> >> >>> Dunno what you mean by that. >> >>> >> >> >> >> I thought that we could call it 1.6 until a break in API would justify >> >> 2.0. >> >> >> >> But, nevermind, because I think we all agree on calling it 2.0 with Java >> >> 5. >> >> >> >> Gary >> >> >> >> >> > >> > Or let's use Sun style versioning, and call the next version 6.0 !!! >> > (while still calling it 1.6 in the tag...) >> > >> > ;-) ;-) ;-) >> > >> > ps. Just to avoid confusion with my silly joke, I am +1 to Java5 and >> > calling it 2.0 and trying our utmost to preserve drop-in reverse >> > compatibility. >> >> fine, just don't drop this last requirement light-heartedly ;-) >> > > What about dropping deprecated items? That should be OK in a 2.0. I was > planning on doing that today. > > That does not preserve drop-in reverse compatibility but we do it in major > releases.
AFAIK, this means changing Maven id and package name. > > Gary > > >> - Jörg >> >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org >> >> > > > -- > Thank you, > Gary > > http://garygregory.wordpress.com/ > http://garygregory.com/ > http://people.apache.org/~ggregory/ > http://twitter.com/GaryGregory > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
