On Oct 24, 2014, at 10:49 AM, Justin Mclean <jus...@classsoftware.com> wrote:
> Hi, > >> It was not Bertrand that said that. It was Brane. > > Sorry my mistake, it been a long thread. No problem. Glad to clear that up. > >> There are no issues with having an EXTERNAL dependency any more than there’s >> a concern of having a dependency on an operating system. > > Unless it's Category X [1], that's clear at least. Although there are some > exceptions there re build and test tools. My reading is that even category x is okay as long as it’s not distributed by Apache, but that’s an academic point right now. If we ever have to deal with category x, we can discuss it. (There’s also the subject of different classifications of dependencies: dependencies compiled into the binary, compile time dependencies not compiled in and runtime dependencies. But this is all academic right now...) Harbs
