Hi Sebb, sebb wrote:
> On 24 August 2015 at 08:04, Jörg Schaible <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Hi Sebb, >> >> sebb wrote: >> >>> On 23 August 2015 at 23:19, <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> Author: dbrosius >>>> Date: Sun Aug 23 22:19:04 2015 >>>> New Revision: 1697267 >>>> >>>> URL: http://svn.apache.org/r1697267 >>>> Log: >>>> remove the need for casting at the clone() call site >>> >>> -1 >>> >>> I was hoping to reduce the number of API changes to the minimum, so we >>> can potentially release a >>> version that is binary compatible with 5.2. >> >> Are you sure that this is binary incompatible? IIRC it is safe to adjust >> the return type of clone here. > > It's not binary compatible because the return type is part of the > method signature. > > I think it may well be source compatible. No, because the exception is no longer thrown (error depends on the compiler settings) or if someone has overloaded the method with return type Object. Cheers, Jörg --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
