On Sun, 27 Oct 2002, robert burrell donkin wrote:
> make beanutils dependent on lang > -------------------------------- I'm +1. BeanUtils has a higher level than Lang, so it makes sense to have BeanUtils dependent on Lang. The issue we hit is one of dependencies is something that Jakarta [or Apache] Commons _has_ to solve. Many components should be dependent on Lang/Collections/IO/etc. It's the whole point of them. However, how do we distribute these without causing enourmous pain. > i'm willing to make these changes. i am also willing to help to maintain > and improve the code in lang if the lang team are happy to have me as a > committer. Get's my +1 :) > since this change will mean quite a bit of work and will introduce a new > dependency for beanutils, i'd rather not rely on lazy consensus. obviously > i'm +1. Ideas for how to handle dependencies better at Jakarta Commons would be good. String Taglib is dependent on Lang and the number one problem users have is not having commons-lang in their classpath. Hen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:commons-dev-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:commons-dev-help@;jakarta.apache.org>
