Andrew John Hughes wrote: > 2009/5/14 Kelly O'Hair <kelly.oh...@sun.com>: >> If the OpenJDK was able to build with jibx 1.1.6 or 1.2.1, >> or in general was able to build with more of the jibx versions >> (I don't know how hard that would be) does that change things? > > It would simplify things a little, yes. I'm not sure it's possible, > given builds with both older and newer versions fail for different > reasons. It seems the package doesn't attempt any kind of stable API.
That surely is the key point. It doesn't matter how much we might want a specific version of JIBX, it isn't going to happen for Linux distributions. Distros generally pick a particular version of Package X, and if Package Y needs some other version of Package X then Package Y must be patched or dropped from the distribution. We are not in a position to dictate to a user exactly which version of JIBX will be installed on their system. Therefore, if JIBX is now a dependency of OpenJDK we'll have to find a way to make OpenJDK work with whatever versions of JIBX people choose. Andrew.
