Re: [Geotools-devel] Incompatible change occurred on trunk

[Andrea A. <aa...@op...>]

Simone ha scritto:
> Ciao Andrea,
> I think I talked a bit about the issue you are bringing up before and 
> meanwhile doing this work.
> This change MUST be done in an incompatible way if we want to have main 
> NOT depending on coverage.
> Moreover, unless we want to create a circular dependecy there is no way 
> to use the usual deprecation cycle, because
> if we do so, main would depend on coverage which would depend on main.

I disagree. Keeping the same packages as before while moving
the classes from one module to the other would not have changed the API.
That is:
* move the classes, don't change package
* create the new classes in the new packages
* have the old ones extend the new ones and become empty shells to 
ensure API continuity
* deprecate the old ones
* on 2.5 or lated, remove the deprecated old ones.

Cheers
Andrea