Re: BCEL release strategies

> On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 00:33 -0500, Dave Brosius wrote:
>> >>I mean we are on trunk anyway... btw: maybe it would be
>> >>good to talk about release strategies for bcel.
>>
>> >>cheers
>> >>--
>> >>Torsten
>>
>>
>> Yes, I'd like to start committing new Annotation parsing code. Problem 
>> is,
>> of course, is if clients out there were using the Unknown attribute to 
>> gain
>> access to annotations, adding in true Annotation support will cause their
>> code to fail, as Annotations will no longer be Unknown. Things will still
>> compile as is, just not run as expected.
>>
>
> Have you considered adding a new method for accessing annotations?
>
> Code calling the old method would get "Unknown" nodes returned, and new
> code would get the real Annotations. And the old method could be marked
> as deprecated.
>
> Regards,
>
> Simon

Yes, we could create Visitor15 interfaces, et. al. But then we live with 
that mess forever.
I'm game for whatever folks agree on, though.