Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-jakarta-httpcomponents-dev-archive@www.apache.org Received: (qmail 72388 invoked from network); 16 Nov 2007 12:11:12 -0000 Received: from hermes.apache.org (HELO mail.apache.org) (140.211.11.2) by minotaur.apache.org with SMTP; 16 Nov 2007 12:11:12 -0000 Received: (qmail 93220 invoked by uid 500); 16 Nov 2007 12:10:59 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-jakarta-httpcomponents-dev-archive@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 93177 invoked by uid 500); 16 Nov 2007 12:10:59 -0000 Mailing-List: contact httpcomponents-dev-help@jakarta.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: "HttpComponents Project" Delivered-To: mailing list httpcomponents-dev@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 93167 invoked by uid 99); 16 Nov 2007 12:10:59 -0000 Received: from athena.apache.org (HELO athena.apache.org) (140.211.11.136) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Fri, 16 Nov 2007 04:10:59 -0800 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.0 required=10.0 tests=SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: pass (athena.apache.org: local policy includes SPF record at spf.trusted-forwarder.org) Received: from [217.146.182.215] (HELO web26111.mail.ukl.yahoo.com) (217.146.182.215) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with SMTP; Fri, 16 Nov 2007 12:10:46 +0000 Received: (qmail 70138 invoked by uid 60001); 16 Nov 2007 12:10:27 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.it; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=Pf/Zu2c0vu6EtaSJ6NnpKjuxH354y/IDeoaIB1VrY+obNKHrosthdnSdzlATE2C5nyzgP46XBhFkJkVGiRR3gODhW6dMLW5MJat6WvOCqJm36JnHygFiyk/uEF+aEyKwPDZNjB3+ahljK+h3V8bPLr6aXpZUrbAYIOSXR6CHe1s=; X-YMail-OSG: PBlcuRkVM1kHl5tZvw4OYjbAij95blzJJ09lz.e1sI1hefhAaboBl9.keb2vQi0GE2pCUwcQtbEDNhJ5tYDAvGFHxaDt35BZ2LBPwjNgeErokxvv Received: from [83.103.42.46] by web26111.mail.ukl.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 16 Nov 2007 13:10:27 CET Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 13:10:27 +0100 (CET) From: Stojce Dimski Subject: real/perceived requirements, dependencies, jdk... To: HttpComponents Project In-Reply-To: <473D633A.7070101@odi.ch> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <137337.69303.qm@web26111.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on apache.org Questions that I raised are about taking the benefits from some advancements in platform (language, libraries, tools) at reasonable cost of some dependencies... 1) Migrating the source to Java5 with use of 'retroweaver' brings just build time dependency for those who want to rebuild from source, produced artifacts are not dependant from Java5... So this is trivial issue for many consumers of this library out there, but can bring some benefits for those who develop this code base... 2) Use of runtime dependencies I spoke of just one 'java.util.concurrent' which is very, very, very, very widely used and would be necessary just for those 1.4 platforms and is no dependency on Java5, Java6 etc... Common, it is not some esoteric library it's part of JRE... The case of 'google-collections' was just a provocation, as those will by 90% be part of Java7 and will be 'backported' to Java5 and Java6, something like 'java.util.concurrent' 2 the revenge ;-) I admit that timing is not perfect but it's better to do something now than later... ___________________________________ L'email della prossima generazione? Puoi averla con la nuova Yahoo! Mail: http://it.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: httpcomponents-dev-unsubscribe@jakarta.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: httpcomponents-dev-help@jakarta.apache.org