That is not a use case for animal sniffer. http://mojo.codehaus.org/clirr-maven-plugin/ Or http://mojo.codehaus.org/jdiff-maven-plugin/
On Friday, 17 May 2013, Jeffrey E Care wrote: > William Eason <[email protected] <javascript:;>> wrote on 05/17/2013 > 11:21:37 AM: > > > Yes I've used it. I thought it worked great! > > > > On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 10:24 AM, Jeffrey E Care > > <[email protected]<javascript:;> > > > wrote: > > > > > Is anyone using animal-sniffer? I found & reported a potential problem > on > > > the mojo mailing list, but no response so far. I'm wondering if anyone > here > > > on the list is using it or has used it in the past. > > Can I ask when was that last time that you used it? Which version? What > problem(s) were you trying to solve? > > I'm looking for a tool that my team can use to validate version-to-version > API compatibility of our modules. My use case is to record the API > signature of version n-1, then during builds of version n compare the > current API signature to version n-1's signature. I thought that I could > use animal-sniffer for this, but even my very simple test shows that > neither the check goal nor the enforcer rule complains about even simple > breaking changes (like deleting a whole class!). > > Are there any alternative tools available for this use case? I really > don't want to have to roll my own here... -- Sent from my phone
