+1 to rename current wicket into wicket-core

-igor

On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 6:53 PM, Martin Grigorov <mgrigo...@apache.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> With https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WICKET-3261 I added a new Maven
> module to 1.5: wicket-core.
> Its purpose is to create a .jar that contains the classes from wicket.jar,
> wicket-util.jar and wicket-request.jar (aka uberjar, jarjar, ...).
>
> We split wicket/ to three modules : wicket/, wicket-util and wicket-request
> to make it more modular and easier to maintain, but now (non-Maven) users
> complain about class loading problems because they didn't add -util and
> -request in their classpath.
> The purpose of the new module is to hide the fact that we split the code
> internally and tell all users to use the new uberjar.
> We can even not publish the smaller ones in the Maven repos.
>
> The open question is: should we rename current wicket module to wicket-core
> and the new module to become 'wicket' ?
> Pros:
>  - all user apps will continue to have dependency to
> org.apache.wicket:wicket
> Cons:
>  - merging code from 1.4 to 1.5 can become a bit harder
>
> If we agree on that renaming of the modules then I need a date when other
> devs don't commit anything to do it.
>
> martin-g
>

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