On 9 November 2010 17:47, Henning Schmiedehausen <henn...@schmiedehausen.org> wrote: > This opens the philosophical can of worms of whether the dependencies > in the POM should be the 'least version required to run this' or 'the > latest and greatest'.
> personally, I prefer the former. If someone integrating vfs uses > commons-collections-3.2.1 in their project, they will override the > transitive dependency of commons-vfs. But if someone integrating > commons-vfs needs to use commons-collections-3.1 for whatever reason, > then dragging in a sudden dependency change will screw them over. > > So I am -1 on this change. Please don't do it. Sorry, already did it. I'll revert the Collections change, but I think HttpClient should remain at 3.1 (rather than 3.0) as there were quite a few important fixes in it. Also I assume JUnit can stay at 4.8.2 as that is a test-only dependency. > -h > > > > On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 04:13, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote: >> The following dependencies could potentially be updated: >> >> ant:ant ............................................... 1.6.2 -> 1.6.5 >> commons-httpclient:commons-httpclient ..................... 3.0 -> 3.1 >> commons-collections:commons-collections ................. 3.1 -> 3.2.1 >> javax.mail:mail ......................................... 1.4 -> 1.4.1 >> org.apache.jackrabbit:jackrabbit-webdav ............... 1.5.2 -> 2.1.2 >> xml-apis:xml-apis .................................... 1.0.b2 -> 2.0.2 >> >> I think we should update most, if not all of them. >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
