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Gary D. Gregory commented on IO-797:
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I agree with [~erans] .
We do our utmost to maintain _binary_ compatibility, which we did for the
release in question. Here, you are talking about _source_ compatibility, which
is different, nice to have certainly, not but critical when it gets in the way
of evolving and maintaining the code base.
> IOUtils.readLines breaking change
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>
> Key: IO-797
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IO-797
> Project: Commons IO
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Utilities
> Affects Versions: 2.12.0
> Reporter: Dave Moten
> Priority: Minor
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> org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils.readLines no longer throws IOException as of
> 2.12.0 but rather throws an UncheckedIOException.
> This is a breaking change in that wrapping such a call with try catch
> (IOException e) now attracts a compile error because the method no longer
> throws IOException.
> I'm unaware if this is a routine thing for this library, I would hope not. I
> can fix my code but I expected this sort of change only to be made with a
> major version number bump.
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