On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Steve Downey wrote:
> Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 15:35:06 -0400 > From: Steve Downey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: Jakarta Commons Developers List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Jakarta Commons Developers List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [collections] collections depends on lang? (RE: cvs commit: > jakarta-commons/collections/src/java/org/apache/commons/collections > ClassMap.java) > > When libraries are too small, you start to have to make bad decisions about > coupling. There are natural ways for lang, collections, beanutils and a few > others to interact. Coupling them is probably better than duplicating the > behavior. OTOH, it does introduce more management difficulties, because the > releases would need to be coordinated. > > It is interesting to note that the releases of many of these projects, > although coordinated separately, do tend to come in waves. The release bug is > contagious. > I took a crack at one way to deal with the coupling problems, by creating the "combo" directory in the jakarta-commons workspace. The basic idea was to allow a developer to create an all-in-one JAR file with your favorite tagged versions of *all* the released Commons packages -- the default would be the latest released version of each package. My thinking was that, whenever one of the constituent packages did a release, the release manager would also do an updated commons-combo release. As an extra added benefit, the build script creates consolidated Javadocs for the included packages -- something that I've found invaluable in its own right, completely separate from the combined JAR file. If you'd like to help me explore whether this would be a useful thing to work on, feel free to pitch in - I'm sure that the build.xml file there now is probably somewhat stale, and the CVS checkin log messages for build.xml mention some FIXME items that weren't done in the first place. > > > > On Friday 25 October 2002 01:35 pm, Henri Yandell wrote: > > *chants* > > commons-core commons-core > > */chants* > > > > :) > > Or maybe commons-combo ... commons-combo ... :-) Craig -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:commons-dev-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:commons-dev-help@;jakarta.apache.org>
