On Jan 31, 2008, at 16:25, Vincent Hennebert wrote:
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Which means for today that we remove the no longer necessary
serializer.jar and xercesImpl.jar and we keep the other ones.
Solution 1, amended.
I hope I’m clear.
WDYT?
This also sounds good enough for me. As long as we can't safely
remove the dependency on Xalan without causing more troubles, I'm
fine with keeping it for the time being.
The goal in the end should be to avoid hard dependencies on
components for which there is a standard API (just like we don't have
dependencies on any of the com.sun.* classes behind some of the
classes in the public/standard Java API). Following Vincent's
suggestion is already one step in the right direction.
Then again, since Xalan is actually needed because of the dependency
on Batik, I'm wondering whether those libraries can be moved into
Commons. Not as a mandatory dependency there, but an optional one, a
resource in a special commons.jar which FOP and in time maybe also
Batik can share...
Cheers
Andreas
