On Jan 29, 2008 10:28 AM, 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 > > Sebastien pointed us toward Spring as another example which, for the > framework, has the slightly different pattern > > ?-binaries > ?-binaries+dependencies-src-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 >
An alternative to what we do now with all the licenses embedded in the one top level LICENSE file is to include the licenses in individual files either in a separate licenses folder or in the same folder as the dependency so its real easy to see if any are missing and what they apply to. I thought that was discouraged but it seems to be becoming acceptable again and makes thing clear i think. Another thing that would help a lot is to use the Maven plugins to help generate our legal files instead of creating them by hand. ...ant
