+1 I see no reason why it should be private. Also, why do we try/catch throwing a RuntimeException which is Bad™? I think a client can reasonably recover from not finding the version string.
Cheers, -- Gianmarco On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 05:44, Jonathan Coveney <[email protected]> wrote: > And perhaps also add getVersionNumberString() which is just "0.11.0" or > whatever? I can imagine some helper methods that might be convenient...I > have been working on a version migration in Pig and this would be > convenient to have, and it seems like there is no real reason to hide this > from the user. > > Thoughts? >
