Dmitry M. Kononov wrote: > Hi Tim, > > On 6/6/06, Tim Ellison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Dmitry M. Kononov wrote: >> > I noticed that the xalan.jar 2.7.0 from the ibiblio site does not >> > contain the BCEL at all. However, a lot of xalan's classes (maybe even >> > all) depend on it. >> > >> > Are you going to add the BCEL to the list of dependencies separately? >> >> Can you explain why we need BCEL? (All the Harmony tests pass fine with >> the new Xalan version as it is) > > I am not sure that we really need it at the moment. We do not need it > unless we want to use the XSLTC compiler which is a part of xalan.jar and > depends on BCEL. > > The reason why I asked is a wish to be sure that I could use the BCEL > version > later than 5.0, that is included into xalan.jar usually. For example, > I would like to > use BCEL 5.1 or later in some tool. But, can I be sure that the next > upgrade of the xalan > will not include the old version of the BCEL again as it was in the > xalan.jar version 2.6?
You would have to ask the Xalan team for their plans; however, I would imagine that their inclusion of BCEL is for their own internal implementation and not as a supported API for the xalan.jar. Probably best if you put your dependency on BCEL directly. Regards, Tim -- Tim Ellison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) IBM Java technology centre, UK. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Terms of use : http://incubator.apache.org/harmony/mailing.html To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
