Martin Cooper wrote:
Whether or not it's petty change depends on (a) how you define dependencies (see below), and (b) your network connection. People still using dial-up connections (and there are still a lot of them) will not appreciate the extra download times, especially for stuff they already have.
I think those with a slow connection and only interested in picking quickly a single jar with go directly to Ibiblio. Even without the dependencies the binary distribution is too heavy, one may not require the documentation (that's 74% of the binary distribution of Digester for example)
Bundling all dependencies in a single archive is an interesting added value IMHO. Hunting missing jars after encountering several NoClassDefFoundExceptions at runtime is a waste of time.
Emmanuel Bourg
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