On 6/27/05, ir. ing. Jan Dockx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 25 Jun 2005, at 20:43, Craig McClanahan wrote: > > > > > For the record, I am absolutely and totally -1 on including JAR files > > in the source code repository of any Apache project that I work on. > > Including them in a binary distribution, of course, is a totally > > different animal. > > > > Craig > > > > > > Even then. (see previous post). In my opinion (for as much as that of a > user counts), only end-user products should contain all dependencies. > Libraries should never, but instead list the dependencies with all > needed information, including what each dependency is needed for. >
Totally agreed on end user products (i.e binary releases) -- they should, licenses permitting, include all the relevant dependencies. That is a totally separate question from whether the binary artifacts should be included in the CVS or SVN source repositories of the software package you are interested in. That's a question of how a product is *built*, not of how it is *packaged*. Craig
