If not done in new classes (both can live in the same lib technically),
sadly yes.

Le ven. 16 déc. 2022 à 20:14, Richard Zowalla <rich...@zowalla.com> a
écrit :

> Thanks for your replies.
>
> I guess, that switching the namespace leads to binary incompatibility (If
> I take the definition from [1]). I cannot drop it in a running JVM / app
> and expect no issues with it as the related APIs are breaking namespace
> changes (at least at runtime if they aren't present) :-)
>
> Aside from that fact, method signatures might also change from javax ->
> jakarta, which would require a short investigation and usage of the
> existing tooling to see if this happens.
>
> From a commons point of view that would mean to go for dbcp3, right?
>
> Gruß
> Richard
>
> [1]
> https://garygregory.wordpress.com/2020/06/14/how-we-handle-binary-compatibility-at-apache-commons/
>
> Am 16. Dezember 2022 15:53:53 MEZ schrieb Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org>:
> >On 16/12/2022 13:24, Gary Gregory wrote:
> >> Thank you Richard for starting this thread.
> >>
> >> My view is simpler perhaps: I would not make this about the javax vs
> >> Jakarta namespaces.
> >>
> >> I don't want to double the numbers of jars we produce from the same
> branch
> >> for affected components as one of the scheme proposed. It feels like a
> >> burden to maintenance moving forward and a very brittle process with
> some
> >> unforeseen side effects.
> >>
> >> This is just a code change IMO. For a given component, either it is
> binary
> >> compatible, or it is not. You don't know until you try it and see if
> public
> >> and protected elements break, using our existing configuration of Maven
> and
> >> japicmp (or revapi).
> >>
> >> If it is binary compatible, then let's consider making the change. If
> not,
> >> then do it in a major version, where the previous major version is
> >> maintained as we do now, as need be.
> >>
> >> A new major version also benefits from the usual dropping of deprecated
> >> elements and making any other changes with seem reasonable.
> >
> >+1. I don't see this as any different to increasing the minimum version
> of Java and supported new JDBC methods.
> >
> >Mark
> >
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