On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 4:56 AM, Oleg Kalnichevski <[email protected]> wrote:
> Oh, come on. > Um, OK. I was just trying to be helpful but should be focusing on other things right now. Jesse already explained that the Android team is swamped, and they haven't had any complaints about HttpClient, so upgrading it has been a relatively low priority. Android is open source. If someone feels strongly about updating HttpClient sooner rather later, they can submit a patch <http://source.android.com/download>. I'm sorry I didn't have time to process your original email. There are only so many hours in a day. I explained on several earlier occasions that Android doesn't allow binary incompatibilities of any kind (not my rule). I understand that the HttpClient team is more tolerant of binary incompatibilities. While I'm not saying it would be impossible to make these changes in Android, I am saying that it would take a lot of convincing (and time), it would annoy other people who are time-constrained and who have higher priorities, and it could likely fail anyway. Bob
