So trunk packages would be renamed _back_ from bcel6 to the 5.2 packages? Gary
On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 3:43 PM, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hang on please. > > There were plans to produce a new incompatible release with new Maven > coords and new package names. > However as I recall there was some pushback from users who wished to > have a drop-in release. > That is not possible unless the release is binary compatible. > > So I spent quite a bit of effort reworking the changes so as to > facilitate a binary compatible release. > As far as I can recall, that effort was successful apart from changes > to an interface (or two). > > There were some ideas as to how to resolve the interface > incompatibilty, but no agreement was reached. > I think the options were: > - introduce new interface(s) extending the old one(s) > - keep the interface(s) and handle any runtime errors > - use the Java 8 (?) facility which allows an interface to contain a > method implementation. > > Note that the code does not yet support some Java 8 features. > > > On 1 June 2016 at 09:34, Jan Matèrne (jhm) <apa...@materne.de> wrote: > >> It does not make sense though. All of the code in the bcel6 package is > >> going to be released for the first time in the upcoming 6.0 release. > > > > Ok, didnt know that. > > Then I'm fine :) > > > > Just wanted to give a hint. > > > > > > Jan > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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 > > -- 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
