Yes, I think WONTFIX is the correct approach. I don't think we want to give any guarantees about compatibility of object serializations across Ant versions. I think object serialization is not really intended for long term object storage, more just for object transmission.
Do we know why Ant objects are being serialized at all? Conor On 29 April 2013 07:03, Antoine Levy Lambert <anto...@gmx.de> wrote: > Hi, > > The bug report 54843 complains about the introduction of a serialVersionUID > in Location.java between Ant 1.8.4 and Ant 1.9.0 > as it prevents the user from loading using Ant 1.9.0 serialized files created > with Ant 1.8.4 > > It looks like this change has introduced a form of incompatibility between > 1.8.4 and 1.9.0 but now I would be tempted to say that it would be a problem > to revert the introduction of these serialVersionUID fields. > > I am tempted to close the bug report as WONTFIX. > > Thoughts ? > > Antoine > > On Apr 28, 2013, at 4:52 PM, bugzi...@apache.org wrote: > >> https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54843 >> >> --- Comment #1 from Antoine Levy-Lambert <anto...@apache.org> --- >> The private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L was added between Ant >> 1.8.4 and Ant 1.9.0 in Revision 1375137 as part of a series of Java 5 >> updates. >> >> It looks like this is a change which has broken some degree of compatibility >> between Ant 1.8.4 and Ant 1.9.0 but this is a one time change. >> >> This change should have been documented in WHATSNEW and ReleaseNotes as a >> change that could break older environment. >> >> I will revert to the dev at ant.apache.org list to see whether we should >> close >> this bug report as WONTFIX - my personal inclination. >> >> -- >> You are receiving this mail because: >> You are the assignee for the bug. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@ant.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@ant.apache.org
