Build failed in Jenkins: POI-DSL-old-Xerces #49

2017-09-30 Thread Apache Jenkins Server
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Re: Apache POI 4.0/Java 8

2017-09-30 Thread Mark Murphy
I think that a transition to 4.0.0 would indicate that things are different. So maybe a repackaging is in order. Semver states that anything with a 0.x.x version can contain breaking changes at any time. It is a pre-release kind of thing. Our documentation states that only the Excel package is sta

Re: Apache POI 4.0/Java 8

2017-09-30 Thread Javen O'Neal
Are we following the guidelines of http://semver.org? If so, should we declare that (possibly in the 4.0.0 release notes)? Semver.org specifies that adding any deprecation warning would need to be done in a minor release and any removal of a deprecated feature be done in a major release. This is