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Manfred Baedke commented on JCR-4957:
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[~reschke]
??I really wasn't aware of this kind of usage.??
Me neither, which is unfortunate, because it's explicitly mentioned in the
JavaDoc. It should be easy to bring the old API back.
??If standalone-components is a public API, it should have OSGi annotations to
the baseline check manages API stability.??
Yes, we should create a separate issue for that.
> Jackrabbit 2.21.18 breaks binary compatiblity with 2.21.17
> ----------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: JCR-4957
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JCR-4957
> Project: Jackrabbit Content Repository
> Issue Type: Bug
> Affects Versions: 2.21.18
> Reporter: Gary D. Gregory
> Priority: Major
>
> We see this break in Apache Commons VFS when trying to update from 2.21.17 to
> 2.21.18:
> {quote}[INFO] -------------------------------------------------------------
> [ERROR] COMPILATION ERROR :
> [INFO] -------------------------------------------------------------
> [ERROR]
> /C:/Users/ggregory/git/a/commons-vfs/commons-vfs2-jackrabbit2/src/test/java/org/apache/commons/vfs2/provider/webdav4/test/Webdav4ProviderTestCase.java:[231,27]
> incompatible types: java.lang.String[] cannot be converted to
> org.apache.commons.cli.CommandLine
> [ERROR]
> /C:/Users/ggregory/git/a/commons-vfs/commons-vfs2-jackrabbit2/src/test/java/org/apache/commons/vfs2/provider/webdav4/test/Webdav4ProviderTestCase.java:[231,18]
> cannot find symbol
> symbol: constructor (java.lang.String[])
> [ERROR]
> /C:/Users/ggregory/git/a/commons-vfs/commons-vfs2-jackrabbit2/src/test/java/org/apache/commons/vfs2/provider/webdav4/test/Webdav4ProviderTestCase.java:[235,15]
> method run in class org.apache.jackrabbit.standalone.Main cannot be applied
> to given types;
> required: java.io.File,java.io.File,java.io.File
> found: no arguments
> reason: actual and formal argument lists differ in length
> [INFO] 3 errors
> {quote}
> Breaking BC in a non-major release should not be allowed IMO.
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