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Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 14:51:00 -0800
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Subject: Re: [VOTE] Release BCEL 6.0 based on RC3
From: Ben McCann <ben@benmccann.com>
To: Commons Developers List <dev@commons.apache.org>
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Is BCEL-209 the only pending issue that would break binary compatibility?
Perhaps we could prioritize the issues that would break compatibility.
On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 7:19 AM, Benedikt Ritter <britter@apache.org> wrote=
:

> 2015-02-19 16:14 GMT+01:00 Ben McCann <ben@benmccann.com>:
>
> > Why do you say users would have to rename all their import statements?
Is
> > there a patch pending that we're consider which would change the packag=
e
> > name? I don't think there'd be any changes that be hard for end users t=
o
> > deal with that I'm aware of.
> >
>
> Changing the major version number for a commons component always implies
> changing maven coords and the package name.


No, it does not. We can release a new major version without a new package
name and new maven coords IFF the new version is binary compatible.

Gary


> We do this, so that several
> versions of the same commons component can be in the same classpath.
>
> Benedikt
>
>
> >
> > On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 7:07 AM, Benedikt Ritter <britter@apache.org>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > 2015-02-19 16:06 GMT+01:00 Emmanuel Bourg <ebourg@apache.org>:
> > >
> > > > Le 19/02/2015 15:17, Ben McCann a =C3=A9crit :
> > > > > Perhaps if there are only a few breaking changes we could
> prioritize
> > > > > reviewing those first and leave the rest for 6.1.  Alternatively,
> we
> > > > could
> > > > > release what's available now as 6.0 and release all the patches i=
n
> a
> > > > couple
> > > > > months as 7.0.
> > > >
> > > > I wouldn't force our users to rename all their import statements in
a
> > > > couple of month as we release BCEL 7.0 with breaking changes becaus=
e
> we
> > > > didn't want to handle a known issue for BCEL 6.0.
> > > >
> > > > Let's settle this now.
> > > >
> > >
> > > +1
> > >
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Emmanuel Bourg
> > > >
> > > >
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