On 16 March 2012 20:26, Ray Cromwell <cromwell...@google.com> wrote:
> I agree with most of this, but I just wanted to mention that I think
> breaking up the dependency chain will be a little tricky for maven
> when it comes to tests. Maven general practice is that a given module
> contains its tests and runs them. The problem with gwt-dev and
> gwt-user is that many of the gwt-user tests can't run unless gwt-dev
> has been built, but gwt-dev IIRC has some tests that depend on
> gwt-user.  So it may be that you need to make separate
> gwt-dev-tests/gwt-user-tests subprojects.
>
> Personally, I'd like to break up GWT-user further into lots tiny
> pieces, like Core, I/O, Emulation, RPC, Widgets, DOM/Media/HTML, etc
> We can still build an uber gwt-user.jar, but there are lots of
> projects that don't use everything, and being able to move stuff off
> of the classpath speeds up the compiler and dev-mode. There are some
> projects like PlayN for example, that pretty much only use Core.

Yes, that would be wonderful!

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