Re: commons-collections packages

[Onkar Shinde <onkarshinde@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Emmanuel Bourg <ebourg@apache.org> wrote:
> Onkar Shinde a écrit :
>
>>> Currently we have two commons-collections packages in repository.
>>> libcommons-collections-java - 2.x release
>>> libcommons-collections3-java - 3.x release
>>>
>>> I browsed the upstream release archive and it looks like the last
>>> release from 2.x was in 2002. So in my opinion we should migrate the
>>> rdepends to libcommons-collections3-java. AFAIK, 3.x API is backward
>>> compatible with 2.x.
>>>
>>> Let me know your comments.
>>
>> Any comments on this topic?
>
> I'm not sure it is fully backward compatible. There was a binary
> incompatibility between 2.1 and 3.0 which was resolved in Commons
> Collections 2.1.1. And some deprecated classes and methods were removed in
> the 3.0 release.
>
>    http://commons.apache.org/collections/compatibility.html
>
> Is it possible to know how many packages depend on the 2.x collections
> package? It would be worth checking if they still compile after the
> migration.

Following is the list of current rdepends of
libcommons-collections-java. In my opinion if they compile fine with
collections3 then there is no problem.

libvelocity-tools-java
libplexus-velocity-java
libcommons-validator-java
libcommons-launcher-java
libcommons-dbcp-java
libjasperreports-java
libdoxia-sitetools-java
checkstyle
libbiojava1.7-java
alien-hunter


Onkar