On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 12:26 AM, Emmanuel Bourg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > sebb a écrit : > >> However AFAICS "jar hell" could still apply to those unknown projects, >> and needs to be avoided if at all possible. > > Well, the probability of jar hell with Commons Math is near zero, I would > not annoy all the users with a package change for a very hypothetical issue. > When you look at the dependencies on lang [1] or collections [2] you > understand why these components must adopt a very careful approach, but > [math] is nowhere near this situation.
+1, IMO the approach chosen should be decided on a component-by-component basis and I don't have a problem with breaking compatibilty in a major version of Math, without changing package names, if thats what the Math devs want to do. Niall > Emmanuel Bourg > > [1] http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/commons-lang/commons-lang/2.1 > [2] > http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/commons-collections/commons-collections/3.2 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
