On 19/03/2009, Stephen Colebourne <scolebou...@btopenworld.com> wrote: > sebb wrote: > > > On 19/03/2009, Stephen Colebourne <scolebou...@btopenworld.com> wrote: > > > > > So, overall, I'm dubious as to whether the value is sufficient to > > > compilcate the compliation and to field the inevitable > confusion/questions > > > as to 'why we added a dependency' (when we didn't add one really...) > > > > > > > Again, I'm not sure I follow. > > > > I don't see how the addition of a single new dependency complicates > > the compilation. > > > > Because [lang] has no dependencies at present. That is a feature. >
The POM does depend on JUnit for testing. I have added the dependency as an optional dependency. > > Nor do I see why users will be confused, so long as the site shows > > that LANG depends on Java 1.5 only. Many of them will just use Maven > > to pick up the new version. If necessary one can always add some > > information on the site as to how annotations behave. > > > > But due to the way maven generates documentation, and the data in the pom, > it will /appear/ like [lang] does have a dependency. That is a complaint against Maven ;-) but there must be a way to add some explanation to the site. Given that Maven currently does not document the JVM requirements, there will need to be some further information on dependencies on the site anyway. > Since most users are unaware that annotation dependencies are not needed at > runtime, they will take the belt and braces approach and include the > 'dependency'. Or stop using [lang]. As I say, it is flagged as optional. > > Indeed hopefully users will start adding annotations to their own code... > > > > This change doesn't actually help with that, other than providing > advertising for JCIP. > > I'm basically -0 to this change, as I think the confusion outweighs the > gains. > > > Stephen > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
