Re: libquartz-java v2 has incomptabilities with previous version

[Mathieu Malaterre <mathieu.malaterre@gmail.com>]

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Dead Java-gurus,

  Could someone please let me know how can I check whether or not a
java jar is compatible with a past version ?

  Apparently libquartz-java 2.x is not compatible with 1.x version. Am
I reading the following correctly:

http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.quartz-scheduler/quartz

  Shouldn't all version ve compatible ?

Thanks !

On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 6:23 PM, olivier.sallou@codeless.fr
<olivier.sallou@codeless.fr> wrote:
>
> Hi Mathieu,
> I am forwarding this email to you directly as you are the one who uploaded latest release of libquarzt-java.
> I sent the mail first to pkg-java-maintainers mailing.
>
> Thanks
>
> Olivier
>
> -------- Message original --------
> Sujet: libquartz-java v2 has incomptabilities with previous version
> Date : Fri, 13 Apr 2012 15:13:52 +0200
> De : Olivier Sallou <olivier.sallou@irisa.fr>
> Répondre à : osallou@debian.org
> Pour : pkg-java-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org
>
>
> Hi,
> recent upload of quartz v2.1.4 in sid created some issue in one of my
> package and will certainly impact many other packages.
> The change from v1.x to 2.x introduced some incompatibilities in APIs.
> There is a backward compatibility jar but it does not solve all problems.
>
> This result in failure even in "common" usages.
>
> Shouldn't package be named  libquartz2-java to keep compatibility with
> packages depending on previous version ? and as such supporting dual
> versions ?
>
>
> Olivier
>
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Mathieu