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Brahim Djoudi commented on COLLECTIONS-483:
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Dear Thomas.
First, thank you for your reply.
About the proposed enhancement, I agree with you. The work required for the
users of the library may become significant because of
the broken API compatibilty.
I proposed the dependency refactoring because I am used to work with OSGi
environments where dependencies should be managed
at package level. With the Commons Collections, I use a "Require-Bundle" clause
to import the library entirely. It's not really a problem
for me since the library has a version number at jar level.
Best Regards
Brahim
> Cyclic dependencies among several packages.
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>
> Key: COLLECTIONS-483
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COLLECTIONS-483
> Project: Commons Collections
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Affects Versions: 4.0-alpha1, 4.0
> Reporter: Brahim Djoudi
> Priority: Minor
> Attachments: c4-refactored.png, c4-refactoring.pdf, c4-src.zip, c4.png
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> Original Estimate: 4h
> Remaining Estimate: 4h
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> Many packages have mutual dependency, directly or undirectly.
> These dependencies may be avoided just by moving some classes and interfaces
> within different packages.
> This refactoring breaks API compatibility but enhances the useability and the
> maintainability (hopefully) of the library. In addition, few issues in
> dynamic environments (like OSGi) less occur.
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