On Monday 14 February 2011 9:23:27 AM Benson Margulies wrote:
> No, it isn't compatible.
> 
> I can see your logic as to how someone might end up with incompatible
> versions, but I don't, at this point, want to change the package
> names. 2.0 has been under development for a year, and I've advertised
> it on the user list, incompatibility and all, on several occasions. No
> one has raised this issue.
> 
> Anyone who runs into this can always use classloader technology to
> achieve isolation. I won't claim that this would be painless.
> 
> As an example of another ASF project, I think that commons-http client
> has not changed package names as they have gone through several major
> versions of incompatibility, though I could be confused.
> 
> Obviously, it would only take me about a day to change the package
> name, so if there are a bunch of people who agree with you, I'll
> capitulate. Let's see what other people think.

I personally think it should keep the existing package names.   It's highly 
unusual, I feel, to have version numbers burned into the package names.  I 
don't see many (any?) projects doing that.   

Dan


 
> 
> On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 9:14 AM, Jochen Wiedmann
> 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Is release 2.0 binary compatible with 1.x? If so, a clirr report would
> > be good to demonstrate this compatibility.
> > 
> > Otherwise, wouldn't it be better to change the package name? Note,
> > that schema is a component that is relatively likely to be used by
> > different parts of an application and in different versions.
> > 
> > Jochen
> > 
> > On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Benson Margulies <[email protected]> 
wrote:
> >> https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachews-001/
> >> 
> >> The above URL is a staging repository for the proposed 2.0 release of
> >> XML schema.
> >> 
> >> This release is a significant housecleaning of XmlSchema: updated to
> >> use Java 1.5 collections, rationalize the data model, and generally
> >> try to make it a simpler and more efficient beast.
> >> 
> >> The CXF trunk has been testing against this version for a couple of
> >> months now, so I think it's time for a release.
> >> 
> >> This vote will run for 72 hours.
> >> 
> >> Options as usual as -1, 0, +1.
> >> 
> >> I vote +1.
> >> 
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