On 7/14/07, Niall Pemberton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I was around (just) when 1.7.0 was released but I have no recollection of the decisions made on packaging. I believe the "bean-collections" related bean stuff came originally from commons collections - so I presume this allows people to continue to use these classes wihout taking on the whole of beanutils - and for the bean-collections free version - assures people there are no other dependencies. Anyway the main reason to continue to provide them is so anyone who has chosen to use them can continue to do so. Niall
If I may guess, 1.7 was built before Maven 2 was released. M1 did not have a concept of optional dependencies, so the only way to prevent unwanted dependencies was splitting libraries. IMO, the build technology has improved and there's no longer a necessity to provide them. For those already using them, well, unless you are going to upload them to the M1 repository too, I don't think the split benefits existent users anymore. My 2 cents. Paul
