Christopher,
this thread has gotten a bit out of hand now...
As long as we manage behaving as mature people, I see no problem in talking things
through
offensive, implying that we're doing something weird by using CVS HEAD
of HttpClient (which is totally normal at Jakarta). And your
My 2 cents.
It is ALWAYS possible to maintain binary compatibility. The downside is
that it is ugly and gets unmaintainable over time and it occasionally forces
you to create new classes or methods where you would have liked to have
reuse the old name. Such is life.
An acceptable compromise is
