Re: [icu-support] [icu-design] ICU API: Proposing incompatible MessageFormat changes

[Markus S. <mar...@gm...>]

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 2:42 PM, <yos...@us...> wrote:

> Breaking serialization backward compatibility in stable API class is not
> desired, but I personally can accept such breakage if this is well informed.
> I disagree to throw NotSerializableException always. I request -
>
> - Change the value of serialVersionUID.
> - readObject to check the serialVersionUID - if old one, throw an
> exception.
> - Implement Serializable properly for ICU4J 4.8 and maintain serialization
> compatibility for 4.8 and beyond.
>

Ok.
Would it be ok to not support writeObject() when a custom Format has been
set via setFormat() or one of its siblings?

markus