On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 00:33 -0500, Dave Brosius wrote:
> >>I mean we are on trunk anyway... btw: maybe it would be
> >>good to talk about release strategies for bcel.
> 
> >>cheers
> >>--
> >>Torsten
> 
> 
> Yes, I'd like to start committing new Annotation parsing code. Problem is, 
> of course, is if clients out there were using the Unknown attribute to gain 
> access to annotations, adding in true Annotation support will cause their 
> code to fail, as Annotations will no longer be Unknown. Things will still 
> compile as is, just not run as expected.
> 

Have you considered adding a new method for accessing annotations?

Code calling the old method would get "Unknown" nodes returned, and new
code would get the real Annotations. And the old method could be marked
as deprecated.

Regards,

Simon


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