Agreed. Care must be taken when adding dependencies, especially to collections and lang. I have an alternative suggestion, but want to write it up as a more formal proposal. Hopefully I'll get that done by the end of the weekend.
regards, michael On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Waldhoff, Rodney wrote: > Personally, I'd prefer not to have collections depend upon lang > (currently it doesn't depend upon anything else, correct?), at least > not if ClassMap is the best justification we have for it. > > A lot of other packages use Collections, so adding a new dependency to > Collections is adding a new dependency to a lot of modules. We should > be very careful and deliberate about that. > > > Much of the code for getting all the superclasses > > and superinterfaces of a class is coded in the > > upcoming [lang] reflection code. Maybe the next > > collections release should depend on [lang]? > > > Stephen > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:commons-dev-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:commons-dev-help@;jakarta.apache.org> > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:commons-dev-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:commons-dev-help@;jakarta.apache.org>
