On 03/12/2009 07:01 PM, Dalibor Topic wrote:
David M. Lloyd wrote:
On 03/12/2009 05:41 PM, Mark Reinhold wrote:
You might want to have a look at the new contribution process [1].
Using that will increase the probability that someone will evaluate
your patch sooner rather than later.
- Mark
[1] http://openjdk.java.net/contribute
Consider my post to be step 2 of that process. The patch itself is
probably the most succinct way of expressing the proposed change (it
only took a minute or two to write in any case).
That's understandable, but it's a lot easier to find interesting patches
to review in a bug tracker, then to search for them among mailing list threads.
[...]
OK, that's reasonable. Perhaps Step 2 should be switched with Step 3 then
on the "contribute" page to make it match up then?
It seems that the change would break serialization, by changing the type
of a serialized field (in both classes) away from a primitive one. See
http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/platform/serialization/spec/version.html
for details.
The fields are static so it shouldn't matter.
- DML
