On 29/01/2008, Simon Laws <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 29, 2008 9:11 AM, ant elder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Jan 29, 2008 9:04 AM, Simon Laws <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Perhaps you could issue the external dependencies in a separate > > > > archive; that would need the appropriate N &L of course, but would not > > > > change very often. > > > > > > > > > > Sounds attractive. So we would have > > > > > > tuscany-binaries > > > tuscany-dependencies > > > tuscany-src > > > > > > I think this would be an advantage if we go ahead and split up our > > > distributions into smaller units as suggested in [1]. At the moment the > > > distribution contains everything and the chances that a dependency > > version > > > will change is high. With smaller, more focused distribution zips, we > > may > > > be > > > able to maintain a set of dependency versions as the Tuscany function > > > matures. > > > > > > Simon > > > > > > [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/tuscany-dev@ws.apache.org/msg27305.html > > > > > > > > > There would still be a download available that includes both Tuscany and > > the > > dependency jars though right? This would just add additional downloads > > separating Tuscany and dependencies? > > > > ...ant > > > so you mean... > > tuscany-binaries > tuscany-binaries-with-dependencies > tuscany-src
The advantage of having a separate dependency package is that you only need to update it when one of the library items changes. The disadvantage is having to download 2 archives initially. I see that as very minor. > Sebastien pointed us toward Spring as another example which, for the > framework, has the slightly different pattern > > ?-binaries > ?-binaries+dependencies-src-samples I don't like that - seems a waste to have to download the dependencies just to get the samples. > > Whichever turns out to be the favoured style in the project I'd like to take > a more static approach to dealing with and packaging binary dependencies and > their associated licenses. > > Simon > SebastiAn ;-) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
