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Refactors Hashtable usage to Map
I agree with you that breaking existing API's is a bad thing. However, the
project is currently at 1.0-dev and the main page itself states:
* The code is unreleased
* Methods and classes can and will appear and disappear without warning
While changing the API at this point is less than ideal, most people would
accept that there exists a potential of change between 1.0-dev and 1.0. When it
comes down to it, all we're talking about is changing a public method's return
object from a Hashtable to a Map. This is likely the last opportunity to make
this (trivial) change before the v1.0 release and it would then have to be
postponed until 1.1 (or whatever). I think changing it now is in everyone's
best interest.
Thanks,
Eric
Eric Spiegelberg wrote:
> Matt Benson wrote:
>
>>I just joined the list myself... (for sandbox
>>commons-pgp) but I noticed that in the non-checkstyle
>>changes from this patch, the signature of a public
>>method is modified in at least one place. This will
>>break already-compiled code running against the
>>library. Over in Ant-land we consider that bad; I can
>>only assume the same would be true in Jakarta commons.
>>
>>$0.02,
>>Matt
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