[jira] [Commented] (IO-588) IOUtils.writeLines() should accept an Iterable<>

[Jochen Wiedmann]

Thank you for your patch but... -1 to this patch as it breaks binary compatibility.

Could you explain that, please? A Collection is, in particular, an
Iterable, thus the compiler should use the new methods, instead, as
far as I can tell.

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[Gary Gregory]

Thank you for your patch but... -1 to this patch as it breaks binary

compatibility.
Could you explain that, please? A Collection is, in particular, an
Iterable, thus the compiler should use the new methods, instead, as
far as I can tell.

You are talking about _source_ compatibility. Binary compatibility should
allow a new jar to replace the old one, this change breaks that capability.

Gary

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