Re: Language level, Class files, MRJARs & versioning (was Re: [collections][proposal] Java 7)

2017-07-30 Thread Gary Gregory
On Sun, Jul 30, 2017 at 8:37 AM, Simon Spero wrote: > Class file format is not treated as a breaking change under most versioning > approaches, including the JLS. > > The checkers I looked at that reported on class file format changes > consider it a micro level version change (+0.0.1) > > The

Language level, Class files, MRJARs & versioning (was Re: [collections][proposal] Java 7)

2017-07-30 Thread Simon Spero
Class file format is not treated as a breaking change under most versioning approaches, including the JLS. The checkers I looked at that reported on class file format changes consider it a micro level version change (+0.0.1) The past few major version bumps for projects I've worked happened to