On 1 May 2018 at 05:12, Torsten Curdt <tcu...@vafer.org> wrote: > Just one question: Why? > > The implementation jars for compress would be tiny and would have close to > none dependencies. >
As an end user, I'd prefer to only have to manage a single maven coordinate (e.g., commons-vfs-ssh) instead of multiple ones depending on my use case (i.e., optional dependencies). It makes it easier to figure out which solutions are actually supported at a glance without having to dig through documentation as well. Also, I feel like one of Commons' goals is to avoid jar hell, and providing a monolith with several optional dependencies smells like jar hell to me. -- Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com>
