I am with Henri here... Oliver
On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 17:36:02 -0500, Henri Yandell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 15:14:36 -0500, Phil Steitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Henri Yandell wrote: > > > Not a huge issue for things like Lang which have no dependencies, but > > > for other things like Digester I think it would be a lot better if the > > > binary tar.gz contained the jars it depends on? > > > > Just my HO, but to me that defeats the purpose of > > ibiblio/java-repository. It also bloats distros and adds to the > > effective contract of the distro and responsibility of the RM needlessly > > (Would doing this effectively require us to store whatever jars were > > grabbed at release time in cvs/svn?) > > Nope. The jars come from the ibiblio/java-repo at dist-time. > > A maven user would still use it in the same way, but maven users do > not use the tar.gz distributions, they use the jars in the repos. > > > I may be in the minority here, but I have never liked the "bundle all > > dependencies for convenience" approach -- either as a user or as a > > developer. As a user, I am never sure exactly what I am getting "in the > > bundled version" <cut> > > dependencies/commons-logging-1.0.3.jar > dependencies/commons-beanutils-1.7.jar > > > <cut> I understand that for complex products like > > struts or tomcat, it may be impractical *not* to bundle dependencies; > > but I do not see it as necessary for commons components. > > If I download the digester.tar.gz, I then need to download the > logging.tar.gz and the beanutils.tar.gz. > > Hen > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
