oh, god. Umm... let's just say this issue is surprisingly contentious. Check the archives for two bouts of past vocal discussion.
WILL ----- Original Message ----- From: "Inger, Matthew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Velocity Developers List'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 8:20 AM Subject: RE: 1.4 dependency jars OK. Now that i look in velocity-dep.jar, i notice that the logkit classes are there. Is there any plan to migrate to commons-logging? -----Original Message----- From: Marin� A. J�nsson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 11:01 AM To: 'Velocity Developers List' Subject: RE: 1.4 dependency jars heh heh, here we go again :) > -----Original Message----- > From: Inger, Matthew [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 15. apr�l 2004 14:55 > To: 'Velocity Developers List' > Subject: RE: 1.4 dependency jars > > > Correct me if i'm wrong, but LogKit is NOT required by > Velocity. Some logging package which can be accessed through > Commons-Logging must be present, but there is no specific > requirement on LogKit. Log4J, or JDK 1.4 logger, or even no > log package (in which case it will use the built in > SimpleLogger) can be used. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mike Kienenberger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 10:55 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: 1.4 dependency jars > > > ===== > 1) velocity-<version>.jar : The Velocity jar that does not > include any external dependencies needed by Velocity, such as the > jakarta-commons-collection classes, Jakarta Avalon Logkit, or > Jakarta ORO. We do this to allow you to use whatever version > of collections, logkit, etc that you wish w/o fear of > collision. These jars are included in the distribution, in > the build/lib directory, or at the respective project sites. ===== > > It's not clear from skimming the 1.4 docs which > minimum/tested versions of > the jar files are needed or what additional jar files are > needed. I'd also > recommend that "Velocity, such as" be replaced with > "Velocity, which are" as > > the first suggests that "these, and more" are required, while > the second > explicitly states that "these, and only these" are needed. > > In fact, here's my suggested rewrite [?no idea? needs to be > replaced with > the minimum version of ORO]: > > ===== > 1) velocity-<version>.jar : The Velocity jar that does not > include any > external dependencies needed by Velocity, which are the > jakarta-commons-collection classes (commons-collections.jar -- 2.1 or > higher), Jakarta Avalon Logkit (logkit-1.0.1.jar or higher), > and Jakarta ORO > > (oro.jar -- ?no idea? or higher). We do this to allow you to > use whatever > version of collections, logkit, etc that you wish w/o fear of > collision. > These jars are included in the distribution, in the build/lib > directory, or > at the respective project sites. > ===== > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
