On 6 Jul 2011, at 23:29, Fred Faber wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 6:09 PM, Stuart McCulloch <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 6 Jul 2011, at 17:53, Fred Faber wrote:
>> Would it be sufficient to include Guava as an external dependency for the 
>> test suite, treating them as a client of Guice? Similarly for extensions?
> 
> You mean make Guava an external dependency of the extensions, and not jarjar 
> any Guava references found in them? That would be another option, but I think 
> it would confuse people since they'd need to remember to add Guava as well as 
> the extension they actually wanted.
> 
> Yes.  And mind you I'm enjoying a game of devil's advocate right now,

no worries, I think it's important we consider all views :)

> but folks would have to remember to add Guava as a dep when using Guice 
> proper, and so I don't think doing so when adding extensions would be much 
> worse.  Especially given extensions could declare other deps as well. 

... which then raises the question that if it's ok to have Guava as an 
extension dependency, why can't it be a core dependency?

> 
>> Fred

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