On 2 May 2018 at 08:41, Stefan Bodewig <bode...@apache.org> wrote: > It's a bit more complex than that. A hypothetical commons-sevenz would > stil have an optional dependency on commons-lzma which then has a real > depedendency on XZ for Java. The 7z code doesn't need XZ for Java if the > archive you want to read only contains deflated entries. I don't think > you'd want to split the sevenz module into one that requires lzma and > one that doesn't. >
This sounds like a neat use of optional dependencies. However, this also raises a nice boundary: archives and codecs. The archives depend on codec implementations, not the other way around. -- Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com>
