On 4/20/06, Steve Brewin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Serge Knystautas wrote:
> >
> > Guys,
> >
> > I was going to commit this, but wanted to run it by you just since it
> > introduces another dependency.
>
> Ugh! Surely this is an optional feature. If people want to use it only then
> should they need to add the dependencies.
>
> If and when we move to OSGi, choosing to incorporate a feature will
> automagically ensure that the dependencies are present. Until then an
> optional mailet needs to be manually supplied with its dependents.

Does a 144k jar really warrant an "ugh"?  Cocoon has 29.4m of optional
jars that it bundles.

If OSGi will dynamically download jars on demand, then sounds pretty
cool.  I don't know much about it.

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