On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 18:26 +0000, Stephen Smith wrote: > Hi, > > I might be joining this party a little late, but what value do Commons > Collections developers feel there might be in splitting Commons > Collections into multiple JARs?
here's how i see things... commons collections is really a suite of related libraries. concern about the overall size of the distribution has meant that individual areas (for example, collection-functors) have not been allowed to develop to their full potential. there's now enough critical mass to start factoring a very big distribution into a suite of small but related bricks. > I'm all in favour of removing deprecated code, but when I think of JAR > splitting I think of what happened with Ant 1.6.x - I know plenty of > developers that now refuse to upgrade Ant. I'd be interested to hear > arguments in favour of splitting up Commons Collections. :) i must have missed that particular controversy. could you elaborate? - robert --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
