On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 08:43 -0500, Mark H. Wood wrote: > Does the product *have* to ship with a gaggle of third-party JARs that > are often backlevel by the time we get them?
No, it doesn't *have* to. But you have to consider what the goals of the project are. One aim is to make things as easy as possible for newcomers to get started with DSpace. Is it making it easy for them to have to go and collect a number of JARs from different places? Not being sure which versions are compatible with each other? And what if some sites not being available at the time (at least one JAR distributed with DSpace suffers from this on a long term basis)? > Couldn't we just get a > list of what's required, fetch them, drop them in Tomcat's shared > directory where they can be used by all webapp.s, and keep them > updated as needed? If you want to update the JARs, there is nothing to stop you. And for people that really want to collect their own JARs it might make sense to offer a minimal distribution to save them the time taken downloading all the bundled JARs. But I don't think that such a minimal distribution should come at the expense of what is currently offered. G This email has been scanned by Postini. For more information please visit http://www.postini.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
