Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-jakarta-commons-dev-archive@www.apache.org Received: (qmail 5453 invoked from network); 1 Feb 2005 15:16:46 -0000 Received: from hermes.apache.org (HELO mail.apache.org) (209.237.227.199) by minotaur-2.apache.org with SMTP; 1 Feb 2005 15:16:46 -0000 Received: (qmail 54652 invoked by uid 500); 1 Feb 2005 15:16:43 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-jakarta-commons-dev-archive@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 54589 invoked by uid 500); 1 Feb 2005 15:16:42 -0000 Mailing-List: contact commons-dev-help@jakarta.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Help: List-Post: List-Id: "Jakarta Commons Developers List" Reply-To: "Jakarta Commons Developers List" Delivered-To: mailing list commons-dev@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 54575 invoked by uid 99); 1 Feb 2005 15:16:42 -0000 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.0 required=10.0 tests=SPF_HELO_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: neutral (hermes.apache.org: local policy) Received: from relay-bv.club-internet.fr (HELO relay-bv.club-internet.fr) (194.158.96.102) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.28) with ESMTP; Tue, 01 Feb 2005 07:16:41 -0800 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (lfjr.club-internet.fr [194.117.194.68]) by relay-bv.club-internet.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41CAF25618 for ; Tue, 1 Feb 2005 16:16:38 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <41FF9E25.2080503@apache.org> Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 16:20:05 +0100 From: Emmanuel Bourg User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0RC1 (Windows/20041201) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jakarta Commons Developers List Subject: Re: [digester] initial code for Digester2.0 References: <20050201150315.58287.qmail@web52301.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20050201150315.58287.qmail@web52301.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Checked: Checked X-Spam-Rating: minotaur-2.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N Reid Pinchback wrote: > I strongly agree. Cyclic package dependencies seem > unimportant when you only have a few classes, but as the > amount of code grows, you quickly find that testing and > refactoring because much more difficult than it had to be. Can you give an example of a difficult refactoring due to a cyclic dependency between 2 packages ? I'm not sure to understand the practical issue. Emmanuel Bourg --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: commons-dev-unsubscribe@jakarta.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: commons-dev-help@jakarta.apache.org