* Backward compatibility
@ 2002-12-27 9:20 Daryl Lee
2002-12-27 16:51 ` Brian Jones
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From: Daryl Lee @ 2002-12-27 9:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Mauve Discuss
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.
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Daryl Lee
Open the present--it's a gift.
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* Re: Backward compatibility
2002-12-27 9:20 Backward compatibility Daryl Lee
@ 2002-12-27 16:51 ` Brian Jones
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From: Brian Jones @ 2002-12-27 16:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Daryl Lee; +Cc: Mauve Discuss
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>
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