On Fri, 15 Aug 2003, Henri Yandell wrote: > On Fri, 15 Aug 2003, Rodney Waldhoff wrote: > > > On Thu, 14 Aug 2003, Henri Yandell wrote: > > > > > Forcing a user of three api's to grab > > > dependencies for 12 other api's is going to kill combo dead in the water. > > > > An observation: a user of 3 APIs doesn't need to grab any external > > dependencies outside of those three APIs. If you never load or use the > > dependent classes, you never need to load their dependencies. > > It's very hard to know though.
Not hard at all. Look for "NoClassDefFound". > I look at the dependency list and it says > it needs 5 jars. What dependency list? The compile-time ant and/or maven descriptors? We don't have a formal or even conventional run-time dependency indication AFAIK, although maybe this suggests we need one. > We don't publish a 'you need this jar for this, this jar > for this' list. Also, who wants to trust that? Actually I believe in several places we do (e.g,. <http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/logging/userguide.html>, <http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/httpclient/sslguide.html>). The STATUS files used to hold this information, probably many of them have not been maintained. > Only power users will be able to deal with this easily, and they have no > need for a combo jar. > Automating a build of this gets difficult I believe, plus you'd have to > not run certain tests. It feels like a rather manual solution. Both maven and gump seem to automate this rather well. > Hen - Rod <http://radio.weblogs.com/0122027/> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
