Move to Scala 2.13, stop 2.12 and earlier ?

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Jarek

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Aug 26, 2019, 7:17:46 PM8/26/19

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Scala 2.13 brought significant changes in implementation of collections. ScalaFX provides custom wrappers based on Scala collections. Supporting 2.13 requires breaking compatibility with Scala 2.12 and earlier.

I am planning to port ScalaFX Collections to Scala 2.13 collections API the simplest possible way - that means not spending time to figure out how to make it backward compatible with Scala 2.12 and earlier. I will try to make transition to Scala 2.13, for user code, as simple as possible. Most of user code using ScalaFX will not require changes when moving to Scala 2.13. Any changes will be similar to other code that is using Scala collections. This will be posted on scala_2.13 branch.

I do not have resources to support multiple, incompatible, API versions of Scala collections. Help is needed from community to support scala 2.12 and earlier. Please let me know if you would like to help with supporting Scala 2.12 and earlier.