sebb wrote: > On 6 August 2011 19:37, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 5 August 2011 07:28, Jörg Schaible <joerg.schai...@scalaris.com> >> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> Gary Gregory wrote: >>> >>>> On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 10:02 AM, Jörg Schaible >>>> <joerg.schai...@scalaris.com> wrote: >>>>> Hi Hen, >>>>> >>>>> Henri Yandell wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> I'd like to release 3.0.1 of Lang. >>>>> >>>>> Do we have any policies regarding Serializable types? I'd like to make >>>>> StrMatcher, StrLookup and StrSubstitutor serializable. One step >>>>> further to a serializable Configuration. >>>> >>>> I do not recall such a thing. We should document somewhere the fact >>>> that we do or do not have one though! In an overview.html or package >>>> html perhaps. >>> >>> Actually I am also unsure whether this counts as binary incompatible ... >>> ?!? >> >> AFAIK, implementing an interface is binary compatible, so adding >> Serializable is not an issue. >> >> However, implementing it is not always trivial, and changing the >> serialised form later can affect binary compat, so the implementation >> needs to be done carefully. > > By which I mean: if the serialisation format changes, then any old > serialised instances may be incompatible.
Yeah, that's when you should change the UID again. - Jörg --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
