On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Ryan Hoegg wrote: > Hi all, > > I am getting close to a presentable version of my Commons HttpClient > transport. It is time to start planning the changes to build.xml. > > My local copy just has the new dependency > (commons-httpclient-2.0-alpha2.jar) loading from my build.properties > similarly to how jsse.jar and friends are included. It also assumes > availability of the HttpClient classes at runtime.
Good! > Should I provide a separate build target for this transport, thereby > allowing you all to continue building and testing without the Commons > HttpClient classes? If these are going to be a standard, maintained part of the package, I'd be in favor of them building by default. > Also, this change will have the same dilemma we are seeing with Base64 > moving to Codec: How much should we shield our users from runtime > dependencies? This is a general issue deserving of a separate thread. We may also need to query the user list for this one.
