I think we are talking about a single jar for most distribution purposes. There would occasionally be reasons for separated jars, but that would be rare.
And, yes, I would do exactly as you say, and, indeed, I do prefer a single jar for Colt which is quite a large library in terms of range of functionality. On the other extreme is Spring which often requires 4-7 jars and it is never clear to me just which ones are needed. I would vastly prefer one jar with stuff I don't need in it. So, I say again, let's start small and simple and look for demand rather than make life hard. On 1/29/08 7:54 PM, "Grant Ingersoll" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As for Hadoop and HBase, that is just two potential libraries. We are > potentially talking 10+. Would you want to download a huge jar that > contains everything when all you want is a single algorithm? Granted, > that can be done from one source tree, but I wonder if that makes it > harder.
