On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 12:16 AM, Stefan Bodewig <bode...@apache.org> wrote:
> On 2013-10-16, Gary Gregory wrote: > > > Now that we have a new cleaned up RC, I want to make sure that we > > understand that, strictly speaking and while unlikely in practice, > > 1.6-RC2 breaks binary compatibility with 1.5 (see Clirr). I think we > > started discussing this and after some hand-waving some folks are OK > > with it. I'm not comfortable with it due to getting bitten in large > > integration projects by issues like this and jar hell balls. I'll > > likely defer to the SMEs here but I just want to double check > > specifically on this RC vote thread and hear back before I vote. > > Technically this vote has had enough +1s to close it but let me try to > address your concern by repeating and elaborating the alleged > hand-waving: > > Clirr whines about a protected field that's been removed from two > classes in the tar package. The type of this protected field has been > TarBuffer which has been removed, was package private and didn't > implement any interface. Clirr does not raise an error because of > TarBuffer being removed as it doesn't consider the class a part of the > public API. > > The only people who may get bitten by this change must have written > subclasses of one of the Tar*Stream classes and put them into the same > package that we use in order to gain access to a non-public type. > Thank you Stefan, That is the kind of nice and clear explanation I was seeking. It would have been fantastic to have this explanation in the release notes along with what to expect for compatibility. For an example, see [io]: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/commons/proper/io/trunk/RELEASE-NOTES.txt Another nice aspect of the [io] release notes, is that the notes for ALL releases are in the file. If I am updating from version N - X to N, I can see what to expect from an old release X all the way to the current release N. Gary > Stefan > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > -- E-Mail: garydgreg...@gmail.com | ggreg...@apache.org Java Persistence with Hibernate, Second Edition<http://www.manning.com/bauer3/> JUnit in Action, Second Edition <http://www.manning.com/tahchiev/> Spring Batch in Action <http://www.manning.com/templier/> Blog: http://garygregory.wordpress.com Home: http://garygregory.com/ Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory
