Re: [Springframework-developer] FileSystemXmlApplicationContext.getResourceByPath

[Darren D. <da...@da...>]

On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 10:51:55PM -0400, Colin Sampaleanu wrote:
> historical thing... I picked this up a long long time ago, probably a=20
> bit past Spring 1.0, but at that time it was decided that it would not=20
> be changed in order to not break backwards compatibility, but it's an=20
> unfortunate wart, as people get surprised by it all the time. The one=20

so would the impending 2.0 release be a good time to change this to the
behaviour that most would expect?  Of course it won't be backwards
compatible, but I think those tradeoffs have already been discussed and if
you can't do stuff like this on a major version release, Spring will end up
carrying this baggage around for ever.

IMO, you can expect some non-BC in a major version change and so long as
they are prominently documented, it's not so bad.

What does anyone else think?

Regards,

--=20
Darren Davison
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