https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59791

--- Comment #2 from Nick Burch <[email protected]> ---
Can we do this in a way that won't break backwards-compatibility? The use of
those int constants is something that goes back to the very earliest days of
Apache POI, and will be used by a huge number of programs out there. They'll be
used for both getters and setters, and in some cases I've spotted (on the
mailing list and on stackoverflow, amongst others), people have actually
hard-coded the int values like 2 and 3 in their code! :/

If we break source compatibility on this, we risk lots of people not being able
to upgrade. If there's a source-breaking change, I'd suggest we wait for 4.0
when we're breaking CT stuff as well

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