On Fri, 19 Apr 2002 16:28, Stefan Bodewig wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Peter Donald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > What I would prefer was that you had answered my question when I
> > asked it initially
>
> Then I must have missed that question, sorry.
>
> I vaguely recall that you talked about depending on stuff from
> excalibur, and I didn't think that would be different from depending
> on stuff from BCEL.
BCEL is a coarse grained project where extension is a fine grained component.
ie
$ find jakarta-bcel/src/java ! -path '*CVS*' | wc -l
347
$ find jakarta-avalon-excalibur/extension/src/java ! -path '*CVS*' | wc -l
15
> All that I wanted to say is that *I* won't do what your warning
> expects me to do if I see a reason to change the class
It takes a very minor effort on your part to collaborate but instead you
choose not to. If it was a project external to apache or under an alternative
license or did not have someone who would fix original project then it may be
understandable - but this is not the case. You work against a project rather
than with it. I wonder why Ant2 is taking so long.
> Why are you duplicating the code instead of making it a binary
> dependency on the appropriate excalibur part?
Because ants library classloader management sucks. I want users to have this
work out of the box without going through uglies to get it working. Users
have to suffer enough due to crappy decisions and I want to avoid this if at
all possible. Usually that would mean bundling the library with ant. However
given the near religious fervour against bundling even essentials in ants
distribution I assumed this was out - or am I wrong?
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Cheers,
Peter Donald
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