I sent this yesterday using my Apache email address but it seems not to have made it to the list.
Apologies if you were using this method. It was removed for reproducible build purposes. The build is not reproducible if we stick today's date in a generated source file and compile it into a class. So, I will be -1 on adding this back. Reproducible builds are becoming a major topic. Important for verifiable releases. We may even become legally required to have them in future (EU and US are at least considering this). One option would be to parse this XML file: https://github.com/apache/poi/blob/trunk/doap_POI.rdf On Wednesday 20 March 2024 at 15:04:36 GMT+1, Thorsten Möller <thorsten.moel...@unibas.ch> wrote: Hello I wanted to upgrade POI from version 5.2.2 to 5.2.5 in one of our local projects. I noticed that the method org.apache.poi.Version.getReleaseDate() has been removed starting from release 5.2.4. We use this method as part of a diagnostics feature to get versioning and release date information of libraries that we use. Assuming that POI adopts Semantic Versioning, this is annoying. For a patch release (5.2.3 -> 5.2.4), I would not assume that a method of its public API gets removed without further notice. The change has neither been documented in the changelog (https://poi.apache.org/changes.html) nor does the relevant SVN commit (https://svn.apache.org/viewvc/poi/trunk/poi/src/main/version/Version.java.template?revision=1910760&view=markup) give a clue on reasons why it has been removed. Would it be possible to reintroduce this method, please? Note that the build token `@DSTAMP@` used by the project's Gradle build script is also still existing; which poses the question to me why the method has been removed but the Gradle build has not been cleaned up correspondingly (yes, I have checked that as well `@DSTAMP@` is nowhere else used). Thanks Thorsten --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@poi.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@poi.apache.org
