On Friday 16 October 2009 08:57:37 Michael Busch wrote: > > So please tell us which you prefer as a back compatibility policy for > Lucene:
I don't do drop in but recompile anyway, so it doesn't matter for me. It is only important that the documentation is clear about what has to be done. > B) best effort drop-in back compatibility for the next minor version > number only, and deprecations may be removed after one minor release > (e.g. v3.3 will be compat with v3.2, but not v3.4) Nevertheless I prefer B because the deprecation changes per release will be smaller and maybe even grouped by topic. I prefer advancing step by step. A bunch of deprecated API parts even hinders reading and understanding the API. So, the sooner they are gone, the better. Regards, Stefan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org
