On 1/10/07, Jeremy Boynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip>
For example, Spring does have independently > released subprojects, but the main Spring release is a lot more > than just > the their IOC container, it comes with a whole bunch of related > components - > spring-aop, spring-jms, spring-jpa, etc - that they deem make the > release > useful and interesting, and that they have tested are all at > compatible > levels. Also, all those components are generally only released > together > rather than having lots of separate independent releases. This seems > generally the case looking across most other projects vaguely > similar to us. This is a different kind of beast - it's an aggregation of released components put together for users. Pulling this kind of thing together takes a lot of time an resource
Maybe we've not been talking about the same thing. Do you think we need a beast like this? I guess I was thinking we did as it seems a bit unfriendly to just put a whole lot of independently released artifacts up on our website and leave it to users to work out which work together. ...ant
