Re: [LANG] BC breaking changes in trunk

2014-02-27 Thread Matt Benson
ISTR someone saying it seemed like it would be safe to make this break in BC because there were likely to be no existing FastDateParser subclasses. However, the compatibility was preserved in FastDateFormat by passing through a null *to* FastDateParser, so doing the same on FastDateParser itself wo

Re: [LANG] BC breaking changes in trunk

2014-02-27 Thread Gary Gregory
Can we add back a ctor? Gary On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 10:37 AM, Benedikt Ritter wrote: > Hi, > > I'm preparing lang 3.3 RC 1. While looking through the reports I've > noticed, that we have a Clirr error in 3.3 compared to 3.2.1 [1]. This was > introduced in r1557882 [2]. The change is a result o

[LANG] BC breaking changes in trunk

2014-02-27 Thread Benedikt Ritter
Hi, I'm preparing lang 3.3 RC 1. While looking through the reports I've noticed, that we have a Clirr error in 3.3 compared to 3.2.1 [1]. This was introduced in r1557882 [2]. The change is a result of LANG-950 [3] The question for me is: can we handle this change without breaking BC? Benedikt [