commons-codec was in fact a pre-existing dependency so it was hardly
likely to cause problems for anyone.
While my personal preference would be to retain the pre-existing
dependency, Siegfried does at least have a rational for the way he
implemented it and a counter-argument to the maintenance point (key
phrase: "in this case").
Let's try and not discourage any efforts that go into moving us forward.
Scott
Dipl. Ing. Siegfried Göschl wrote:
Hi Thomas,
in this case the big question is - how stable is the Base64
implementation versus adding a dependency? IMO Base64 implementation
is stable and therefore safe to be "copy and wasted" versus having an
additional dependency.
Any other opinions out there ... :-)
Cheers,
Siegfried Goeschl
On Thu Oct 4 17:34 , Thomas Vandahl sent:
Dipl. Ing. Siegfried Göschl wrote:
> Hi Scott,
>
> +) I spend a big junk of my time managing projects and fighting
> dependency hell
> +) fulcrum-crypto was depending on three external libraries
whereas two
> of them are troublesome (cryptix, mail)
> +) since fulcrum is a component repository any additional
dependency is
> a problem because it is required if you would like to use a component
> +) if you depend on a single self-contained class of an external
library
> I tend to move the code to my own project to get rid of the
dependency
> +) looking at fulcrum-yaafi as an example I could depend on
> commons-lang, commons-codec, commons-proxy and commons-cli
> +) from a technical point of view those dependencies are correct but
> makes reuse a lot harder
I understand your point but I beg to differ (as you know). IMO, if you
flee the dependency hell this way, you will rot in maintenance hell
sooner or later. We call that "den Teufel mit dem Beelzebub
austreiben"
in German.
Bye, Thomas.
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