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Thomas Neidhart commented on COLLECTIONS-483:
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Hi Brahim,
first of all, thanks for all the effort that you have put into this.
It is a proposal that would involve very radical changes to the codebase, also
going away from the convention to put the interfaces and util classes in the
base package and all implementations in sub-packages.
Such a change should be discussed on the dev mailinglist, where it would get a
greater audience. So I would suggest that you post a message there in case you
want to continue with this change. Keep in mind that our plans are to release a
4.0 quite soon, thus a change like this should happen either fast or will have
to wait for a (potential) 5.0 release.
> Cyclic dependencies among several packages.
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> Key: COLLECTIONS-483
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COLLECTIONS-483
> Project: Commons Collections
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Affects Versions: 4.0, 4.0-alpha1
> Reporter: Brahim Djoudi
> Priority: Minor
> Attachments: c4.png, c4-refactored.png, c4-refactoring.pdf, c4-src.zip
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> Original Estimate: 4h
> Remaining Estimate: 4h
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> Many packages have mutual dependency, directly or undirectly.
> These dependencies may be avoided just by moving some classes and interfaces
> within different packages.
> This refactoring breaks API compatibility but enhances the useability and the
> maintainability (hopefully) of the library. In addition, few issues in
> dynamic environments (like OSGi) less occur.
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