James, Actually, I believe Lang 3 is supposed to be mixed and matched. That is why the package was renamed. What I think we have here are symptoms of an incomplete transition. If we really want mixing/matching, the groupId should be renamed too; otherwise, we should revert the package name.
Paul On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Tom Brito <brito....@gmail.com> wrote: > But the new svn trunk don't have the lang package, just the lang3. > So the code that depends on the old stuff don't work. > > -- Wellington B. de Carvalho > > > On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 12:27 PM, James Carman > <ja...@carmanconsulting.com>wrote: > >> The Commons Lang library isn't intended to be "mixed and matched" >> between releases like that. The package is released as a whole. You >> can't expect to pick stuff out of different releases and then just >> combine them and somehow expect them to work. >> >> The reason the package name is changing is so that the next-generation >> work on Commons Lang can move forward. This way, even if you still >> have an old version of Commons Lang in your classpath (because of a >> third-party dependency) and you want to use Lang3, you can still do >> it. The code that depends on the old stuff will work just fine and >> the code that depends on the new stuff will work just fine. >> >> On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Tom Brito <brito....@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Hi all! >> > >> > I would like to know why this incompatibility between the jar file and >> the >> > svn repository: >> > In the jar file there is the package org.apache.commons.lang; >> > This same package in svn is called org.apache.commons.lang3 >> > >> > As consequence, I can't use code directly from svn, becouse it will not >> run >> > with the jar. >> > Anyone know why this incompatibility? >> > >> > Thanks! >> > >> > >> > -- Wellington B. de Carvalho >> > >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@commons.apache.org >> >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@commons.apache.org
