On 12/21/11 10:24 AM, Jörg Schaible wrote: > 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.
Could be I am missing some magic or just being stupid. Based on what we need to do porting test cases, I was assuming that you needed to generify factories and pool instantiations to make the new version work. Is it possible to use pool constructors and factories that do not use generics with the proposed code? Apologies if I have that wrong. Phil > > - Jörg > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
