On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 11:54 AM, Jukka Zitting <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > On 02/03/2011 11:34 AM, Stefan Guggisberg wrote: >> >> do you have any convincing use case for keeping rome in jackrabbit >> core? > > Not really. It might be useful for something like a feed aggregator > application, but then again such an application would likely store feeds > as fine-grained JCR content instead of Atom/RSS files. > >> rome has a dependency on jdom. jdom used to cause class loading >> issues in the past. > > Agreed, jdom is troublesome. > >> i'd rather prefer to not clutter up jackrabbit core with useless >> dependencies. > > What do you think of the idea of moving the tika-parsers dependency from > jackrabbit-core to the deployment packages like jackrabbit-webapp and > jackrabbit-jca? Tika is intentionally split into tika-core and tika-parsers > to allow such a setup.
yes, that's probably a good idea. however, i stil think it would be worthwhile getting rid of unnecessary (transitive) dependencies and making sensible decisions when adding new dependencies. cheers stefan > > -- > Jukka Zitting >
