Jochen Wiedmann <jochen.wiedmann <at> gmail.com> writes: > The problem is simply that votes for releases on commons drive me sick. > > It is not the exception, but the standard, that people demand changes > (which they of course assume that the RM will do) and use a -1 to > enforce their opinion. > > I have a different opinion in this matter. I see absolutely no problem > with a compiler warning as long as I may drop in the binary to a > running system: *That* is what I call binary compatible and what > assume to be the contract for binary releases.
Amen. Especially since the official versioning guidelines [1] consider deprecation as a fully compatible change while a point release only requires interface compatibility. What's actually the reasoning to demand a minor release because of a deprecation? Joerg [1] http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/releases/versioning.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
