On Fri, 2019-11-29 at 15:38 -0500, Gary Gregory wrote:
> I think we should assume that we will keep binary compatibility.
> 
> The next question is whether the new pooling code becomes the default
> behavior or needs to be enabled.
> 

We have been keeping the 4.x codeline fully backward compatible for
over a decade. I see no reason why we could not keep doing that a bit
longer.

However, I looked at how much effort and changes such backport would
involve and I am pretty close to giving up on the whole idea.

Oleg  


> Gary
> 
> On Fri, Nov 29, 2019 at 3:31 PM Ryan Schmitt <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> 
> > Do you intend to remove the old connection pool implementations
> > from 4.5.x,
> > or just deprecate them?
> > 
> > I would also like to echo Gary's question about binary
> > compatibility, and
> > what the compatibility implications are more generally for the
> > client.
> > 
> > On Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 7:42 AM Oleg Kalnichevski <[email protected]
> > >
> > wrote:
> > 
> > > Folks
> > > 
> > > I would like to create new 4.5.x branch in HttpCore and do the
> > > following
> > > 
> > > * change its version to 4.5.0-alpha1
> > > 
> > > * change its JRE level from 1.6 to 1.7
> > > 
> > > * back-port new connection pool implementations from master to
> > > that
> > > branch
> > > 
> > > * deprecate old connection pool implementations
> > > 
> > > Would anyone have any objections to that?
> > > 
> > > Obviously all new features would need to the 4.5.x branch and not
> > > 4.4.x. The 4.4.x would be for critical bug fixes only.
> > > 
> > > Oleg
> > > 
> > > 
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