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Posted to dev@commons.apache.org by Nick Burch <ni...@alfresco.com> on 2011/06/01 00:16:17 UTC

Re: svn commit: r1128371 - in /commons/proper/validator/trunk: pom.xml redirect.pom

On Sat, 28 May 2011, sebb wrote:
>> So IMO if we want to change the groupid or make small incompatible
>> changes it would be OK.
>
> Changing the groupId without changing the package name can result in
> two copies of the library on the classpath, which is much harder to
> debug than a binary API change.  It's not essential to change the
> groupId, so why run the risk?
>
> BTW, the current code is binary compatible with 1.3.1.

OK, on the basis of all this, I think we should stick with the current 
groupId for 1.4

Nick

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