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Posted to dev@ant.apache.org by Peter Reilly <pe...@corvil.com> on 2004/01/28 16:36:51 UTC

Re: Adding branch option to cvschangelog

Antoine Lévy-Lambert wrote:

>
> Does it break *BC* if I change the ChangeLogTask class to inherit from 
> AbstractCvsTask instead of Task ?

I do not think so.
It is allowed to add new methods to a class, so adding a new super class 
should not be a problem.
I have done this with TaskDef. In 1.6 it inherits from TypeDef and not 
from Definer.

Peter


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Re: Adding branch option to cvschangelog

Posted by Antoine Lévy-Lambert <an...@antbuild.com>.
Peter Reilly wrote:

> Antoine Lévy-Lambert wrote:
>
>>
>> Does it break *BC* if I change the ChangeLogTask class to inherit 
>> from AbstractCvsTask instead of Task ?
>
>
> I do not think so.
> It is allowed to add new methods to a class, so adding a new super 
> class should not be a problem.
> I have done this with TaskDef. In 1.6 it inherits from TypeDef and not 
> from Definer.
>
> Peter
>
>
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Thanks Peter,

I will work on this further this evening.

Cheers,

Antoine

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