IMO:

DBCP 1.4 for JDBC 4 (JDK 1.6)
=> Bump it to 2.0.

DBCP 1.3 for JDBC 3 (JDK 1.4-1.5)
=> Stays as is.

Gary

On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 9:05 AM, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote:

> All Commons components other than DBCP have at most one current
> version per major release (e.g. NET has 1.4.1 and 2.2).
>
> DBCP uses a different versioning scheme from all other components:
>
> DBCP 1.4 for JDBC 4 (JDK 1.6)
> DBCP 1.3 for JDBC 3 (JDK 1.4-1.5)
>
> This is rather confusing.
>
> Seems to me it would be better to move to a naming scheme that did not
> rely on the minor version number to distinguish JDBC versions.
>
> Instead of
>
> commons-dbcp-1.3-bin.zip
> commons-dbcp-1.4-bin.zip
>
> perhaps we should have
>
> commons-dbcp-2.0-jdbc3-bin.zip
> commons-dbcp-2.0-jdbc4-bin.zip
>
> or
>
> commons-dbcp-jdbc3-2.0-bin.zip
> commons-dbcp-jdbc4-2.0-bin.zip
>
> [It does not help that the README.html file only describes the 1.4
> release; I'll fix that]
>
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