Hi Phil, Phil Steitz wrote:
> On 12/21/11 9:41 AM, Christian Grobmeier wrote: >> On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 5:19 PM, Phil Steitz <phil.ste...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> 1.5.x ships with tomcat and is used by lots of other production >>> applications. We need to maintain the ability to patch it. >> Tomcat 5.5 (the oldest stable version i can find) uses Java 5: >> http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/setup.html >> >> This proposed release is binary compatible - they should not have any >> issue to upgrade, right? > > Sorry, did not answer that question. No, 1.6 would not be binary > compatible, as it will require generics. All object factories will > have to be rewritten to use generics. ?!? What gave you this idea? It's supposed to be like commons-io-2.x which was also a simple drop-in replacement because it retained binary compatibility despite generics. - Jörg --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
