On Sat, 14 Apr 2001, Peter Donald wrote:
> At 09:12 13/4/01 -0700, Craig R. McClanahan wrote:
> >
> >
> >On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Scott Sanders wrote:
> >
> >> > Another thing we have to consider is dependencies between jars. ie if
> jar1
> >> > depends on jar2, which depends on jar3 version 1.0 etc. First things
> first
> >> > though ;)
> >> >
> >> Baby steps ;-)
> >>
> >>
> >
> >The JDK 1.3 docs includes information on how JAR files can declare (in the
> >manifest) their dependence on specific versions of specific packages. If
> >you're running a webapp inside Tomcat 4, Tomcat will even check this for
> >you to make sure that the required pacakges are available.
> >
> >I suggest we utilize the same techniques rather than re-inventing
> >anything.
>
> Thats fine for use but then you end up a setup like RPMs ... *shudder* ...
> where every time you update a RPM you find another dependency ... only to
> have it require another thing etc. It is much better to store this sorta
> thing in meta info about the package and let the retriever crawl
> edependency list *without* downloading jars.
>
Or extract it from the JARs as they are stored into the repository ...
> Cheers,
>
> Pete
>
Craig
