Sure, but by the same token I would not upgrade from sl4fj 1.5.x to 1.6.x (on the assumption that that introduces an incompatibility) between hibernate 3.3.1 and 3.3.2.
The same needs to apply here. commons-annotations needs to maintain a level of compatibility within a release series. - Steve Ebersole Project Lead http://hibernate.org st...@hibernate.org Principal Software Engineer JBoss, a division of Red Hat http://jboss.com http://redhat.com steve.ebers...@jboss.com steve.ebers...@redhat.com On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 19:20 -0400, Emmanuel Bernard wrote: > On Mar 23, 2009, at 09:31, Steve Ebersole wrote: > > > 1) If commons-annotations *does not* rely on hibernate-core in any way > > then I'm fine to break it it back out if that makes sense. However > > y'all need to be *extremely* careful about this and making sure about > > compatibility. The whole idea about moving these things back together > > was to make the compatibility "matrix" more manageable. Making > > incompatible changes in dependency common to core/annotations/em and > > search effectively makes those things incompatible as well. Same for > > integrating it into annotations. > > Right but commons annotations should really be considered at the same > level as slf4j. > All Hibernate projects do share slf4j but Search and Validator are > independent of core (release wise and even to a certain extends at > runtime). _______________________________________________ hibernate-dev mailing list hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev