Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!border3.nntp.ams.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.bt.com!news.bt.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 05:14:54 -0600 Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 11:14:54 +0000 From: lipska the kat <"lipskathekat at yahoo dot co dot uk"> Organization: Trollbusters 3 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130308 Thunderbird/17.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Fixing "typos" in enums... References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: Lines: 21 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-AuthenticatedUsername: NoAuthUser X-Trace: sv3-e8tEmC1gUe3K34r/TeQhmKwTThqtHNEtcKKPa5jZSAXcJeJULjdxvS+QbndV6Hc1KRhVKdGZe9zvvfi!/C9k2JDOhbkj8RU/eM+aTFmJe7ngb+ChRxjNoYtzMTsvVMYrerxzvt28b7RkZhZsSpOXRyc/Eg== X-Complaints-To: abuse@btinternet.com X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@btinternet.com X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2004 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:26551 On 18/11/13 23:29, Arivald wrote: > W dniu 2013-11-15 17:25, Andreas Leitgeb pisze: >> Let's assume, some non native English speaker writes up >> a library, that's really useful and gaining broader use. > Leave current API as is. But with major upgrade of library, change > package name (ex com.me.superlib => com.me.superlib2), and in new > version use correctly spelled enums and other names. > > Anyone who switch to new version of library will need to adapt and > refactor code anyway, so fixing misspelling wont be a problem. Gets my vote -- Lipska the KatŠ: Troll hunter, sandbox destroyer, treacherous feline and farscape dreamer of Aeryn Sun GNU/Linux user #560883 - http://www.linuxcounter.net