From 4289521fba5dd08a32a74c8d9f27fd42f3a26ea4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joe Schmetzer <joe@exubero.com>
Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2024 13:39:45 +1100
Subject: [PATCH] Restore public constructors for compatibility

CoreMatchers, MatcherAssert, and Matchers had private contructors added
to fix javadoc warnings. Unfortunately, this can break existig users of
the classes.

Fixes #427
---
 hamcrest/src/main/java/org/hamcrest/CoreMatchers.java  | 5 ++++-
 hamcrest/src/main/java/org/hamcrest/MatcherAssert.java | 5 ++++-
 hamcrest/src/main/java/org/hamcrest/Matchers.java      | 5 ++++-
 3 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/hamcrest/src/main/java/org/hamcrest/CoreMatchers.java b/hamcrest/src/main/java/org/hamcrest/CoreMatchers.java
index 6dadcc52..f00a6e54 100644
--- a/hamcrest/src/main/java/org/hamcrest/CoreMatchers.java
+++ b/hamcrest/src/main/java/org/hamcrest/CoreMatchers.java
@@ -13,7 +13,10 @@
 @SuppressWarnings("UnusedDeclaration")
 public class CoreMatchers {
 
-  private CoreMatchers() {
+  /**
+   * Unused
+   */
+  public CoreMatchers() {
   }
 
   /**
diff --git a/hamcrest/src/main/java/org/hamcrest/MatcherAssert.java b/hamcrest/src/main/java/org/hamcrest/MatcherAssert.java
index 574f4f61..29d3364e 100644
--- a/hamcrest/src/main/java/org/hamcrest/MatcherAssert.java
+++ b/hamcrest/src/main/java/org/hamcrest/MatcherAssert.java
@@ -6,7 +6,10 @@
  */
 public class MatcherAssert {
 
-    private MatcherAssert() {
+    /**
+     * Unused.
+     */
+    public MatcherAssert() {
     }
 
     /**
diff --git a/hamcrest/src/main/java/org/hamcrest/Matchers.java b/hamcrest/src/main/java/org/hamcrest/Matchers.java
index 714777c2..dcc88366 100644
--- a/hamcrest/src/main/java/org/hamcrest/Matchers.java
+++ b/hamcrest/src/main/java/org/hamcrest/Matchers.java
@@ -22,7 +22,10 @@
 @SuppressWarnings({"unused", "WeakerAccess"})
 public class Matchers {
 
-  private Matchers() {
+  /**
+   * Unused
+   */
+  public Matchers() {
   }
 
   /**