Re: [PROPOSAL] build structure jakarta-commons

[Scott Sanders]

>> I believe that if you are depending
>> upon a specific released version of a jar
> 
> 
> ....Important bulletin: we interrup this quote to bring you the preferred
> completion of this sentence:
> 
>    DON'T.
> 
> If we want to build a composable system we can't affort to have brittle and
> early-bound dependencies.
> 
> The place to start is with Commons.

Sam is just everywhere ;-)

I agree wholeheartedly with this sentiment.  We as java programmers 
should be programming to an interface contract, _NOT_ specific versions 
of jar files.  jakarta-commons is the perfect place to start enforcing 
this in the Apache umbrella.  Early-bound dependencies are bad, m'kay.

We need to somehow get people started on the notion of using 
deprecation, and supporting the contracts that they have already provided.


Scott Sanders