Gilles wrote: > On Tue, 16 Aug 2016 09:10:06 +0200, Jörg Schaible wrote: >> Hi Gilles, >> >> Gilles wrote: >> >>> Hi. >>> >>> Suppose that >>> commons-rng-core-1.0.jar >>> depends on JDK 1.6. >>> >>> And that we wish to offer utilities (e.g. random strings) and other >>> syntactic sugar (such as Java 8 streams) in >>> commons-rng-utils-1.0.jar >>> that would depend on JDK 1.8. >>> >>> Is it possible? >> >> Yes. Have a look at XStream >> (https://github.com/x-stream/xstream/blob/master/xstream/pom.xml), it >> already does this (since >> years), currently to support lambda expressions. It declarers simply >> a >> second compiler execution. Note, there's a bug in Maven that forces >> you to >> define as many excludes in the second execution as in the first one. > > IIUC, it is not exactly what I had in mind, which would amount to > having two separate JARs: "core" and "utils". > "core" is anticipated to be stable (hopefully) while "utils" could > evolve faster and possibly in a non-compatible way. > > I.e. we could have > > core-1.0 > > utils-1.0 > depends on core-1.0 > > utils-1.1 > depends on core-1.0 > > utils-2.0 > depends on core-1.0 > > core-1.1 (e.g. after adding a new RNG implementation) > > utils-2.1 > depends on core-1.1
Well, a commons component has *one* version. You can introduce another artifact (just like Artem proposed), but there's no independent release cycle. Cheers, Jörg --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
