On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 10:57 PM, Doug Cutting <cutt...@apache.org> wrote:
> On 03/07/2012 11:31 PM, Alex Karasulu wrote: > > Not trying to beat a dead horse to death here but I'm starting to think > > that we might have had some basis to these package namespace issues. The > > recent private Lucene-Commons threads show what can happen if this policy > > is that hmmm liberal. Don't know if that's the right choice of words. > > The differences between the cases should inform any policy. > > In one case you have the inclusion of an older package name for > back-compatibility by the same community that created the older API. In > the other case you have the inclusion of an API that conflicts with one > managed by a different, still-active community. Regardless of the situation in which this occurs the potential problem is a namespace conflict. But I hear ya. The social situation is very different. -- Best Regards, -- Alex
