Edouard De Oliveira wrote:
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I know that having a core that do not rely on some other lib is a good feature.
But is code dup worth it ? I personnaly hate it but i'm not saying we
absolutely should avoid it specially when we're talking about only one class ...
Well, we have to balance advantage of keeping the framework as small as
possible, compared to having to check out commons-codec modifications
regularely...
The origin of the problem is that the Java JDK does not exhibit a Base64
coder/decoder (it's not visible, but it exists), so there was a need for
something available on ASL license.
FYI, we at directory have forked the code too, and never touched it
back. It's around 200 lines of code.
Anyway, we can discuss it and make a decision.
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cordialement, regards,
Emmanuel Lécharny
www.iktek.com
directory.apache.org
