On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 5:26 PM, Oleg Kalnichevski <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, 2014-02-21 at 15:54 -0500, Gary Gregory wrote: > > Why not move trunk to 5.0 instead of 4.4 so we can drop all this > deprecated > > code? > > > > Major releases tend to be very disruptive. They are supposed to be. We > should consider doing 5.0 after 4.4 and taking it as an opportunity to > introduce some major features such as HTTP/2.0 support. However, > speaking from 4.0 experience it may take years to complete. > > I would not do a major release just to drop deprecated code. > Perhaps, but you could start there, release early release often. 5.0 could drop code, 5.1 could start adding features. Gary > > Oleg > > > Gary > > > > > > On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 10:02 AM, Oleg Kalnichevski <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > > > On Fri, 2014-02-21 at 14:49 +0000, sebb wrote: > > > > Surely this is equivalent to adding a new public method, which would > be > > > allowed? > > > > > > > > We cannot remove the public qualifier, but I don't see why adding it > > > > could cause a problem. > > > > > > > > > > It is up to us to decide whether or not it is ok to add new methods in > > > bug fix releases x.y.Z, but so far I was always trying to keep them > > > fully compatible. In the stable release branch people should be able to > > > upgrade as well as downgrade without making any code changes. > > > > > > Oleg > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > > > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > -- E-Mail: [email protected] | [email protected] Java Persistence with Hibernate, Second Edition<http://www.manning.com/bauer3/> JUnit in Action, Second Edition <http://www.manning.com/tahchiev/> Spring Batch in Action <http://www.manning.com/templier/> Blog: http://garygregory.wordpress.com Home: http://garygregory.com/ Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory
