David W. Van Couvering wrote: > Hi, Kathy, thanks for your email. The timing is actually pretty good, > I was just talking with Francois trying to understand his concerns > better. > > After quickly describing the two approaches, I'd like to summarize the > experience/impact of these approaches from the perspectives of the end > user, the developer/maintainer, and the test developer/runner. >
Thank you David for the summary. I thought "modular build" meant adding more jars, so it was good to have that cleared With Approach 1 I personally am not too keen on the new ordering requirements, testing requirements, or the potential for regression with the versioning scheme. For the USER EXPERIENCE for either approach, how much growth do you anticipate in the client due to code sharing with the first round of what you want to share and a guesstimate of how big it might get if we utilize all that you think the client should use from the engine? The earlier thread on the size of the common jar file http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/db-derby-dev/200507.mbox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] made it sound significant. Kathey
