Spring update?

[Cantor, Scott]

On 2/21/15, 6:52 PM, "Tom Zeller" <tzeller at dragonacea.biz> wrote:
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>> On Feb 21, 2015, at 12:46 PM, "Cantor, Scott" <cantor.2 at osu.edu> wrote:
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>> With 3.1 imminent, we probably want to bump the Spring version. We're 
>>on 
>> 4.1.3, and it looks like 4.1.5 is out now. And objections if I do that, 
>> assuming the tests pass?
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>No, but is Web Flow compatible ? There were issues in the past, just 
>checking.

The issue there was me. I was uncomfortable with the Java model of forcing 
updates to transitive dependencies, meaning that it seemed wrong to me 
that if SWF says it requires a given version of Spring, that we should 
override that.

I still think that model is broken and essentially punts versioning to a 
lot of wishing and hoping, but that's apparently how it's supposed to 
work. You just blindly trust that people aren't breaking anything I guess.

It's not materially different with sonames, but there, there's a specific 
expectation of what has to happen when an ABI or API changes, and 
violating that is understood to crash everybody's software.

-- Scott