On Mon, 2014-03-03 at 18:57 +0000, sebb wrote: > On 3 March 2014 10:43, Oleg Kalnichevski <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sun, 2014-03-02 at 01:24 +0000, sebb wrote:
... > >> > >> I don't know which of its fields are likely to be needed by the > >> schedule() method apart from consecutiveFailedAttempts which already > >> has a public getter. > >> The trunk version now has a public getter for the identifier; for > >> consistency perhaps that should also be added to 4.3.x? > >> > >> > > > > HttpClient 4.3 ships with two public implementations of this interface. > > Those classes are likely to be enough for the majority of users. I would > > rather not make any API changes to the stable branch unless absolutely > > necessary. > > In which case, I think the Javadoc needs to be updated to note this. > > However, I just don't understand the rigid stance on API immutability. > Yes, changes should be carefully reviewed to ensure that they make sense. > But in this case the next release has already made the proposed change. > And backwards compatibility is very unlikely to be an issue. > We still have a chance to re-do those changes in the dev branch should we find that necessary. We will not have that option anymore once 4.3.4 is out. Oleg --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
