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I agree, I am not sure there is a large benefit to changing this at this time. Seems a lot of effort for minimal gain at best.<br class="">
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In light of this, I would like to revisit this issue, 22 years later:<br class="">
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- Is my assessment that this change is actually not binary incompatible sound, or did I miss something?<br class="">
- Would it in any case make sense to mark ZipConstants as @Deprecated, maybe for removal to alert people we want to remove the constants?<br class="">
- Could we aim to make the mentioned classes *not* implement ZipConstants, following the regular deprecation process, CSR and release note etc?<br class="">
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This is a JDK 1.1 era mistake. It would a source incompatible change to "remove" the constants. It would require corpus searches to gauge the impact. I think the question is whether it's worth the disruption, is your motivation to cleanup this area or something
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