Michael, I appreciate that you cannot please everyone but I would question whether most users would prefer to have a smaller jar size versus having debug symbols out of the box. Xerces does have a wide variety of use cases which probably justifies a need to distribute without debug symbols, however for server side applications which already have a ton of jars, the slight increase in file size for Xerces is not significant. Many of the core open source server side java libraries only ship with debug symbols, not having Xerces in there as well is a big pain when debugging.
We can off course recompile, however I'd think the use-case for debug symbols is stronger than that for jars without. I can see why there is no need to rock the boat, so could I suggest a compromise by distributing Xerces-J with the current jars and also providing the -g jars? Jeff On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 13:51 -0400, Michael Glavassevich wrote: > Hi Gary, > > We had a discussion on the list last year [1]. Still the same story. > > Thanks. > > [1] http://markmail.org/message/hnep3unggvhr5mbk > > Michael Glavassevich > XML Parser Development > IBM Toronto Lab > E-mail: mrgla...@ca.ibm.com > E-mail: mrgla...@apache.org > > Gary Gregory <ggreg...@seagullsoftware.com> wrote on 06/16/2010 > 11:59:52 AM: > > > Hi Michael, > > > > I could rebuilt Xerces myself but it would be great if Xerces were > > compiled with debug information or offer a debug version of the jar > > (s) along with the normal one. > > > > Thank you, > > Gary > > > > Gary Gregory > > Senior Software Engineer > > Seagull Software > > email: ggreg...@seagullsoftware.com > > email: ggreg...@apache.org > > www.seagullsoftware.com > > > > > > From: Michael Glavassevich [mailto:mrgla...@ca.ibm.com] > > Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 15:23 > > To: j-users@xerces.apache.org > > Subject: Re: [Xerces2j] version 2.10.0 > > > > FYI: I just started a release vote on the j-dev mailing list. If all > > goes well with that Xerces-J 2.10.0 will be available this Friday, > June 18th. > > > > Thanks. > > > > Michael Glavassevich > > XML Parser Development > > IBM Toronto Lab > > E-mail: mrgla...@ca.ibm.com > > E-mail: mrgla...@apache.org > > > > Michael Glavassevich <mrgla...@ca.ibm.com> wrote on 06/10/2010 > 11:02:00 AM: > > > > > The code is pretty much frozen at this point and is being tested > now. > > > > > > Michael Glavassevich > > > XML Parser Development > > > IBM Toronto Lab > > > E-mail: mrgla...@ca.ibm.com > > > E-mail: mrgla...@apache.org > > > > > > Jacob Kjome <h...@visi.com> wrote on 06/10/2010 01:34:39 AM: > > > > > > > Any estimates on a release date yet? > > > > > > > > Jake > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: j-users-unsubscr...@xerces.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: j-users-h...@xerces.apache.org
