[hibernate-dev] Killing hibernate-jpa-api ?

[Steve Ebersole]

On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 7:05 AM Sanne Grinovero <sanne at hibernate.org> wrote:

> Not really. Think of it as Deprecation: it will trigger some warnings
> for end users, especially those who didn't get the "news" of moving to
> the new API, and keep things working for a little longer for those
> people not willing (able?) to react right away to resolve the
> warnings.
>
> We can keep a deprecated method (jar) around for a couple more
> releases, or drop it as soon as it gets too inconvenient to maintain.
> It's definitley not a promise of long term.
>

Couple more releases of what?  Hibernate ORM, as opposed to JPA?  I assume
that's what you meant, just making sure.  Honestly I would never publish a
new relocation - that means we are incrementing the version of the JPA API
jar, which should not happen.