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Instead of just bitching, I'll suggest a possible solution. Pick someone in your project who understands the issues, has shown an interest in these problems, and give them the authority to make decisions. I know it is not very "Apache", but I believe it will work.
i know that i've said it before but i'm not really convinced that this is so much an authority issue as an awareness/motivation issue. if there are good and well-known reasons why small footprint distributions are required, then i'd say that it's unlikely anyone would veto the creation of extra build targets for more modular distributions as well as the current monolithic ones.
the main problem is that there's been a lot of pressure from users in the other direction - bigger distributions, fewer jars. we've had quite a fair number of requests for comprehensive distributions containing everything in the jakarta commons but (until recently) very few people have come and made compelling arguments for the need for more compact and focussed distributions.
we could probably satisfy both those who want comprehensive libraries and those who need more compact ones by providing a monolithic jar and a set of modular jars within the binary distribution. wouldn't this satisfy both needs?
- robert
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