On 24 August 2015 at 10:57, Jörg Schaible <joerg.schai...@swisspost.com> wrote: > Hi Sebb, > > sebb wrote: > >> On 24 August 2015 at 08:04, Jörg Schaible <joerg.schai...@swisspost.com> >> wrote: >>> Hi Sebb, >>> >>> sebb wrote: >>> >>>> On 23 August 2015 at 23:19, <dbros...@apache.org> 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)
Huh? The commit did not change the throws clauses (there were none) > or if someone has overloaded the method with return type Object. Here I agree. > Cheers, > Jörg > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
