Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-incubator-general-archive@incubator.apache.org Received: (qmail 73593 invoked by uid 500); 19 Mar 2003 00:15:18 -0000 Mailing-List: contact general-help@incubator.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: no List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: Reply-To: general@incubator.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list general@incubator.apache.org Received: (qmail 73580 invoked from network); 19 Mar 2003 00:15:17 -0000 Message-ID: <3E757D8C.3010600@apache.org> Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 08:47:24 +0100 From: Nicola Ken Barozzi Reply-To: nicolaken@apache.org Organization: Apache Software Foundation User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030210 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: general@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: incubator-altrmi/lib/optional excalibur-lifecycle-1.0.jar References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N Aaron Bannert wrote, On 17/03/2003 8.25: > > On Saturday, March 15, 2003, at 02:50 PM, Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: > >> Anyway, I'm curious: since I develop only java and I don't use other >> languages since the universtity (so take this question with the same >> grain of salt ;-) , what would have you thought could have been done >> instead of putting the jar in CVS? > > > If they are a product of the project, then they would just be a local > dependency of the build system. Yes. > If they are the product of another project, then the developer > would just download and build/install that other project. Hmmm, so here start the problems. A Java project can have a lot of dependencies, and making all developers download all these projects and use them has been found out to be a major PITA and time killer. As for installing... well java deliverables are never installed, just copied in the right dir. > As for these particular jars, where do they come from and what > do they do? (And who owns them?) The one pointed out by your original mail excalibur-lifecycle-1.0.jar comes from Apache Avalon Excalibur Lifecycle. Most of the projects depend mainly on Apache jars, but there are also jars from many other OS projects. -- Nicola Ken Barozzi nicolaken@apache.org - verba volant, scripta manent - (discussions get forgotten, just code remains) --------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscribe@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-help@incubator.apache.org