Jeremy Boynes wrote: > Daniel John Debrunner wrote: > >> >> But as an aside, I once downloaded an open source project, which then >> instructed me to fetch a further five or six common Apache libraries, >> either at a specific version numbers or higher than a given version. I >> followed all this correctly, set up the classpath and immediately got an >> abstract method error. >> >> That's an example of badly managed common versions, and I do not wish >> Derby to fall into the same trap.
> > And how many open source projects have you downloaded or used without > such issues? Please don't taint this from one bad experience. Nothing tainted, I'm just pointing out there are bad ways to handle common code. > All of these lead to a simple end-user experience and that's what we need, any solution needs to continue the simple end-user experience. Dan.
