[codec] more granular artifacts

[Ryan Hoegg <rh...@isisnetworks.net>]

Hello,

I have now been party to the Commons Codec project being used in two 
non-Jakarta projects, Apache Maven and Apache XML-RPC.  In both, the 
only reason it is desirable is the Base64 codec, and in both cases the 
communities involved are grudgingly introducing a dependency on 
commons-codec.  I have seen members of both projects propose just 
copying the source code and reusing that instead of requiring a runtime 
dependency on the jar.

In order to promote the reuse of commons-codec instead of the 
source-code-copy reuse strategy, I propose modifying the codec build to 
create certain additional artifacts that might be more palatable to 
developers in this situation.  I envision a commons-codec.jar including 
everything the current one does, a commons-codec-api.jar including just 
the common interfaces, a commons-codec-base64.jar including only 
Base64.class, etc.  It could easily be done with the maven reactor, and 
I volunteer to do the work.  Since I am not a commons committer, I 
wanted to get some of your feelings on this before I plunge in.  Are 
there any disadvantages to this approach I have missed?

I cross-posted to xmlrpc-dev to get the rest of the team's input on this 
as well.

--
Ryan Hoegg
ISIS Networks
http://www.isisnetworks.net/

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Re: [codec] more granular artifacts

[Tim O'Brien <to...@discursive.com>]

On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, Ryan Hoegg wrote:
> In order to promote the reuse of commons-codec instead of the 
> source-code-copy reuse strategy, I propose modifying the codec build to 
> create certain additional artifacts that might be more palatable to 
> developers in this situation.  

Ryan, this is a great idea - to create separate artifacts which are geared 
towards specific uses.

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Tim O'Brien



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