On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 9:34 PM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> On Dec 4, 2012, at 8:09 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > On 12/04/2012 01:10 PM, Vincent Massol wrote:
> >> Hi devs,
> >>
> >> I'd like to propose that we stop shading Rendering Standalone. The
> reasons are:
> >>
> >> 1) It's far from perfect. For example we have at least 3 libs we cannot
> shade:
> >>
> >>              <!-- We don't relocate the following packages since they
> cause runtime issues:
> >>                   - javax.xml
> >>                   - org.w3c
> >>                   - org.apache.xerces
> >>               -->
> >>
> >>
> >> 2) As we added some libs to our deps we forgot to relocate them so
> right now we don't shade (to cite a few): com.steadystate.css,
> javax.validation, ant, aspectj, slf4j, etc
> >> 3) There are lots of resources coming from dependent jars and those are
> not shaded. For example:
> >>
> >>   283 Tue Dec 04 18:50:42 CET 2012 javacc.class
> >>   286 Tue Dec 04 18:50:42 CET 2012 jjdoc.class
> >>   235 Tue Dec 04 18:50:42 CET 2012 jjtree.class
> >>     0 Tue Dec 04 18:50:42 CET 2012 org/xwiki/shaded/javacc/
> >>
> >> or
> >>
> >>  3783 Tue Dec 04 18:50:42 CET 2012
> org/xwiki/shaded/javacc/utils/JavaFileGenerator.class
> >>  3693 Tue Dec 04 18:50:42 CET 2012 templates/CharStream.template
> >> 15990 Tue Dec 04 18:50:42 CET 2012 templates/JavaCharStream.template
> >>   867 Tue Dec 04 18:50:42 CET 2012 templates/MultiNode.template
> >>  1317 Tue Dec 04 18:50:42 CET 2012 templates/Node.template
> >>  5962 Tue Dec 04 18:50:42 CET 2012 templates/ParseException.template
> >> 12711 Tue Dec 04 18:50:42 CET 2012 templates/SimpleCharStream.template
> >>  3227 Tue Dec 04 18:50:42 CET 2012 templates/SimpleNode.template
> >>  4005 Tue Dec 04 18:50:42 CET 2012 templates/Token.template
> >>   368 Tue Dec 04 18:50:42 CET 2012 templates/TokenManager.template
> >>  4244 Tue Dec 04 18:50:42 CET 2012 templates/TokenMgrError.template
> >>    48 Tue Dec 04 18:50:42 CET 2012 version.properties
> >>
> >> So I'd like to keep a standalone distribution to make it easy to test
> XWiki Rendering but without any shading.
> >>
> >> Here's my +1
> >>
> >
> > +0.
> >
> > I believe that it will be a good idea to shade a few critical libraries
> > that are likely to appear in incompatible version, and which are known
> > to cause problems otherwise and which work fine when shaded. I did a
> > quick check on dependency:tree and there doesn't seem to be any such
> > library, but we've had such problems with rhino and asm in the
> > xwiki-platform, and even log4j when the container prefers to use its own
> > version.
>
> The most problematic libraries AFAIK are the ones we exclude because they
> can't be shaded :)
>
> The problem is that right now we document this as if it was a working
> solution when it definitely isn't and I don't think it's good that we do
> so. Providing just a bundle to quickly get started if you don't have maven
> and making sure to mention the JAR hell issue and how to fix it if you want
> to include it in your project is the best solution I can think of.
>
> Actually what we could do to make sure there's no misunderstanding is just
> to provide a zip will all JARs and leave it to the user to use them in his
> project.
>

+1 for the zip


>
> Thanks
> -Vincent
>
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