On 12/21/11 10:37 AM, Phil Steitz wrote: > 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.
Doh! Just realized that I was wrong on this. Will actually work. Sorry for the stupidity. I am still -1 on the three trains model, though and dropping 1.5.x support. I would much rather encourage upgrade to 2.0. Phil > > 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
