On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 7:31 AM, Casper Bang <[email protected]> wrote:

> Interesting subject though. I reckon all of us in here have written our
> own domain-less StringUtils, NumberUtils, DateUtils etc. which are obvious
> candidates for reuse.
>

Then don't you get into the problems of distributing dependencies that only
have one or two classes? While you could, say, split Commons Lang into 5
JARs, if everyone did that, classpath management would become even more
difficult.


>
> I realize Maven, NuGet etc. lets us easily pick down packages we know. But
> what about the whole discovery problem? How would we
> better benefit from each-others work?!
>

A social network... for dependencies. I guess Github is approaching that.
Do you really find discovery that difficult? What would be your ideal
discovery scenario?

Moandji

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