[concurrency-interest] unknown version of concurrent backport
Dawid Kurzyniec
dawidk at mathcs.emory.edu
Wed Sep 6 20:16:11 EDT 2006
Alexandru Popescu wrote:
> We are using a very limited part of it and I have checked the backlogs
> looking for bug fixes in the classes we are using but without finding
> anything critical. I can confess that the size of the jar is one of
> the biggest concerns in our case (TestNG: http://testng.org) and the
> latest backport-util distributions have doubled their sizes (probably
> I may try to trim it down to just the classes we need, but I usually
> don't like modifying the distributions because IANAL).
>
> Any advise?
>
>
That JAR was an early prototype, even before the first public release.
If you're really using only a few files, you might be able to pick them
up from the backport source distribution, what may let you save even
more space. The backport is public-domain so there is absolutely no
licensing concerns - you can do whatever the heck you want with it.
(That's why I love JSR 166 :)
If all your stuff works then maybe this is not critical indeed, but the
early versions of backport had a few nasty little bugs that would come
up only on some platforms. The version you're using wasn't even
unit-tested. It's your call...
Regards,
Dawid
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