On 19 February 2015 at 15:19, Benedikt Ritter <brit...@apache.org> wrote: > 2015-02-19 16:14 GMT+01:00 Ben McCann <b...@benmccann.com>: > >> Why do you say users would have to rename all their import statements? Is >> there a patch pending that we're consider which would change the package >> name? I don't think there'd be any changes that be hard for end users to >> deal with that I'm aware of. >> > > Changing the major version number for a commons component always implies > changing maven coords and the package name. We do this, so that several > versions of the same commons component can be in the same classpath.
That's cart before horse. The major version number change is not the driver here. If a release breaks binary compatibility then the major version must change and so must the package/Maven coords. It's perfectly possible to bump the major version number and not change package name / Maven coords provided that the release is still binary compatible. However, according to SemVer one should bump major version if and only if breaking compat. It's only recently that Commons has started discussing whether to use strict SemVer or not; I don't think it has been agreed for all components. For example, one might want to have a major version bump if the Java version requirements changed from say 1.4 to 1.8, even though it was still binary compat. > Benedikt > > >> >> On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 7:07 AM, Benedikt Ritter <brit...@apache.org> >> wrote: >> >> > 2015-02-19 16:06 GMT+01:00 Emmanuel Bourg <ebo...@apache.org>: >> > >> > > Le 19/02/2015 15:17, Ben McCann a écrit : >> > > > Perhaps if there are only a few breaking changes we could prioritize >> > > > reviewing those first and leave the rest for 6.1. Alternatively, we >> > > could >> > > > release what's available now as 6.0 and release all the patches in a >> > > couple >> > > > months as 7.0. >> > > >> > > I wouldn't force our users to rename all their import statements in a >> > > couple of month as we release BCEL 7.0 with breaking changes because we >> > > didn't want to handle a known issue for BCEL 6.0. >> > > >> > > Let's settle this now. >> > > >> > >> > +1 >> > >> > >> > > >> > > Emmanuel Bourg >> > > >> > > >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org >> > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org >> > > >> > > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > http://people.apache.org/~britter/ >> > http://www.systemoutprintln.de/ >> > http://twitter.com/BenediktRitter >> > http://github.com/britter >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> about.me/benmccann >> > > > > -- > http://people.apache.org/~britter/ > http://www.systemoutprintln.de/ > http://twitter.com/BenediktRitter > http://github.com/britter --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
