Taking this to java-dev (off Jira)... Mark Miller (Jira) wrote:
> I thought there were some that wanted to change some of the API to java > 5 for the 3.0 release, cause I thought back compat was less restricted > 2-3. I guess mabye that won't end up happening, if it was going to, it > seems we'd want to deprecate what will be changed in 2.9. I could easily be confused on this... but I thought 3.0 is the first release that's allowed to include Java 1.5 only APIs (eg generics). Meaning, we could in theory intro APIs with generics with 3.0, deprecating the non-generics versions, and then 4.0 (sounds insanely far away!) would be the first release that could remove the deprecated non-generics versions? That said, I think the "plan" is to release 2.9 soonish (early next year?), and then fairly quickly turnaround a 3.0 that doesn't have too many changes except the removal of the deprecated (in 2.9) APIs. Ie in practice it won't be until 3.1 when we would intro new (generics-based) APIs. Mike
