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Robert Munteanu commented on OAK-7217:
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That change is unfortunately neither source nor binary compatible. So we can
not perform it without breaking backwards compatibility.
The explanation of the binary compatiblitiy that I found is somewhere under
https://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jls/se12/html/jls-13.html, where it says
that
{quote}The signature of a method must include all of the following as
determined by ยง15.12.3:
* The simple name of the method
* The number of parameters to the method
* A symbolic reference to the type of each parameter
{quote}
If the types change, the method signature changes. If the signature changes,
then it can no longer link. If it no longer links, it's no longer binary
compatible.
> check public Oak APIs for references to Guava
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> Key: OAK-7217
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OAK-7217
> Project: Jackrabbit Oak
> Issue Type: Technical task
> Reporter: Julian Reschke
> Priority: Minor
> Attachments: detect-api.diff, extract-guava.sh,
> fileutils-no-commons.diff, guava-global.log, guava-public-v2.log,
> guava-public.log
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