On Fri, 16 Aug 2002, Carsten Ziegeler wrote: > Some time ago, the excalibur project has split up their distribution > of components into several subprojects. We use some of them (for > example the component, xmlutil, store subproject etc.). > > Each of these subprojects creates its own library - the full > avalon-excalibur.jar > is only there for compatibility. > > I would suggest that we skip to all these nice little jars > and remove the big avalon-excalibur.jar. > > The advantages: > - We only include those subprojects we need > - We minimize the build problems with excalibur > - Updating for example to a new store implementation, requires only > updating this subproject and not everything > - The JDK depency is limited to one small jar, the datasource subproject > which is optional for Cocoon, so the Cocoon core is no longer JDK > dependend > - If a bug is in one excalibur subproject we only have to revert this > subproject and not all.
+1 > Disadvante: > - More smaller jars instead of one big one. I think that's a little drawback compared to the advantage we gain. Giacomo --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
