On Sunday 27 October 2002 02:58 pm, robert burrell donkin wrote: > On Sunday, October 27, 2002, at 07:19 PM, Henri Yandell wrote: > > On Sun, 27 Oct 2002, robert burrell donkin wrote: > > <snip> > > >> 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. > > i agree with craig (but then, i find that i usually do). > > it's important to have our releases available independently but that's no > reason not to also offer in addition jar's containing all dependencies. > > so, i'd like to be able to offer a jar containing the latest versions of > all the commons goodies (but i've never been able to get the combo project > to run). > > i also think that the String Taglib should consider offering a > ready-to-run release which contained the commons-lang classes as well as > an minimal release containing just the taglib code. >
That's a bad idea. If String Taglib includes unrelated code, then, later, when you try to include commons-lang in the project, you get random behavior. I had this problem with an Oracle library at one point. Took forever to figure out what was going on. And even if it's documented, noone will remember a few months later, when it comes up. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:commons-dev-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:commons-dev-help@;jakarta.apache.org>
