On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 7:45 PM, James Carman <ja...@carmanconsulting.com> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 9:56 PM, Henri Yandell <flame...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I don't see why we would have to wait on major versions for updates. >> > > Well, if we compile foo-1.1 with Java 5 and then compile foo-1.2 with > Java 6 (assuming we don't target 1.5 on the compile), doesn't that > make them effectively binary incompatible? Version 1.2 isn't a > drop-in replacement for 1.1, since it requires a Java version change. > I don't think that would be too cool.
I'd have thought they'd be fine. A Java6 user using 1.1 upgrading to 1.2 would be able to drop it in. A Java5 user wouldn't, but that's dropping support not binary incompatibility. Hen --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
