On 1/11/06, Ted Husted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On 1/11/06, James Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I'm not sure where this ended up.
> >
> > Whether Resources is part of the jar in "extras" or not, I don't
> > think we should have a dependency on any called "extras".
> > "extra" (to me) means "optional".  Am I wrong on this?
>
> Who is the "we" that has a dependency?


I think the point is that we can't move Resources to Extras if the core is
going to depend on it.

--
Martin Cooper


AFAIK, the only subproject that
> depends on Extras is Apps, because the applications use some of the
> optional classes.
>
> If for some reason you don't like "Extras", we could just call it
> "Optional", like Ant does.
>
> The problem is that we have a class called "PlugIn", and there are
> things besides PlugIn classes that are optional, like the ever growing
> number of dispatch actions :)
>
> Another likely suspect could be that nutty ValidatorActionForm class
> that confues everyone at first. If it were in Extras, it would be
> clear which we consider to be the default.
>
> I think calling the package PlugIns woudl be confusing unless it only
> contained PlugIns. And if that package only contained PlugIns, then we
> would need another package for the other optional classes. 'm not sure
> if I see the value-add in having an eight dwarf :)
>
> -Ted.
>
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