----- Original Message -----
From: Arnaud Le Hors <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2000 3:48 PM
Subject: Re: Build questions


> Eric Hodges wrote:
> >
> > OK, I'm not even going to try that.  The complexity of building against
2
> > versions of the same package is nightmarish.
>
> Nightmarish?? Using two different classpaths in two different parts of
> your code while compiling is trivial.
> But I agree it adds *some* complexity.

Using 2 different classpaths isn't supported by any of our build tools.  I
can't ask the rest of the company to abandon automated builds because of
this issue.

>
> >  I won't inflict that on the
> > rest of my organization, or the people who use my code.
>
> Fine by me. :-)

Well at least one of us is happy.  I guess IBM doesn't have to worry about
using the latest components from Sun and Apache.


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