--- Jacopo Cappellato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If there's a feature desired, an important bug addressed, or > noticeable > > increased efficiency, then great, we should vote on upgrading. > > However, > > I don't think it's necessarily wise to be updating for updating > sake. > > Especially given the number of external dependencies Apache OFBiz > has > > > > I don't think that the issue of dependencies external to the Apache > OFBiz project is a big one... if someone is building an external > application he should pick the jars to use and not rely on the ones > distributed with OFBiz. > > For example, if it is true that the MinML2.jar is no more used by > OFBiz > (both framework and applications) we should really remove it. If > someone > has built a custom component based on the MinML2.jar (?) he will have > to > package the jar in its own custom component and we have no way to > prevent this from happening.
I agree here, when I said "external dependencies" I was referring to the libraries that Apache OFBiz itself depends on, those listed in the LICENSE file, not the libraries custom applications depend on.
