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Subject: RE: Community review of the next commons-logging pom
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 13:28:16 +0200
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rg_Schaible?= <Joerg.Schaible@Elsag-Solutions.com>
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Michael McCallum wrote on Tuesday, August 28, 2007 1:15 PM:

>> Why? Only with dependencyManagement you're able to manage transitive
>> versions.
> In order to keep clean dependency graphs I have used standard
> OO principles to
> encasulate functionality in this case I will use spring as an example.
>=20
> Spring provided many artifacts. I have many projects that use
> different groups of spring projects so I have pulled the spring
> dependencies=20
> out into two
> compositions one that deals with contexts and the other persistence.

[snip]

You still did not explain, what "composition" means. It's no word used =
in standard Maven terminology. Your description does not make it clear =
what you *actually* have done.

[snip]

>> Commons logging has a different philosophy. But this is OT
> for this list.
> If the difference in philosophy means more difficulty in
> managing dependency
> graphs then its not OT for this list but very pertinent.

It is OT, since it is up to the Apache Commons community how they carve =
their artifacts. And splitting an artifact into 6 where 5 of them =
contain a single wrapper class is where philosophy starts. You may =
discuss this at Apache Commons.

- J=F6rg

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