sebb wrote: > On 24 July 2012 09:11, Jörg Schaible <joerg.schai...@scalaris.com> wrote: >> Hi Elijah, >> >> Elijah Zupancic wrote: >> >>> Thanks Jörg! >>> >>> It sounds like we will need to change them all in chain because we >>> have changed the package name. >> >> Well, since they are all different objects now, the Java runtime will not >> try to match them anyway, so it is for this special case not really >> required. > > +1 > > >> However, if you consider a change, I'd like to propose to use everywhere >> a constant that reflects the day of change: >> >> servialVersionUID = 20120724L; // format YYYYMMDD >> >> It's easier then to keep track of changes. > > +0 > > Ideally the svuid is only changed when necessary. > I don't think the id should be updated just because a new method was > added, or code was updated. > > The danger with using the date is that maintainers may update the id > whenever the source is updated.
I did not say that. - Jörg --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
