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Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 18:35:03 +0100
From: sebb <sebbaz@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [math] should version 2.0 be targeted to Java 5 ?
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On 15/05/2008, James Carman <james@carmanconsulting.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 1:04 PM, sebb <sebbaz@gmail.com> wrote:
>  > There must be many projects that use Commons Math that aren't
>  > published in the Maven repository.
>  >
>  > Indeed if not, why was Commons Math created? There must be some
>  > projects using it!
>
>
> I think the point was that we aren't very likely to get into the "jar
>  hell" situation, where two different projects depend on two different
>  versions of commons-math and my project depends on both of those
>  projects.

Sorry, I misread the posting.

However AFAICS "jar hell" could still apply to those unknown projects,
and needs to be avoided if at all possible.

>  I just think that the JDK5 jump merits jumping major
>  versions.  And, if you're going to jump versions, you should jump your
>  package name to match.  Again, that's just my opinion.  I would just
>  like to see Commons do things in a somewhat consistent manner when it
>  comes to this kind of thing.
>
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