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To: Daryl Lee <dlee@altaregos.com>
Cc: Mauve Discuss <mauve-discuss@sources.redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Backward compatibility
References: <20021227171951.GA7889@tigger.localdomain>
From: Brian Jones <cbj@gnu.org>
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2002 16:51:00 -0000
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Daryl Lee <dlee@altaregos.com> writes:

> I have kind of munged myself from pure test writing to the occasional patch
> to the classpath itself.  Now I have a serious issue to raise.  Is there
> any intent and/or strategy for backward compatibilty?  For example, if the
> 1.1 API says "throw IOException here" and the 1.2 and later APIs say "throw
> FileNotFoundException here", should the 1.1 be ignored in favor of the 1.2?
> Of course, the question applies to far more than exception football.  There
> are fundamental behaviors that change, as well.

The current Java 2 (1.4) specification is preferred for Classpath.

Brian
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Brian Jones <cbj@gnu.org>