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Re: RFC: JVM Registry



On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 02:35:41PM -0500, Ben Burton wrote:
CUT.

My mail have not arrived to the list yet so I reply to this mail
instead. Because something just strucked me!

The problem I was talking about was that some packages can
provide and depend on specific jar packages, and maybe with
a specific version of that package.

So why not just "Provides: foo.jar, bar.jar" and then depend on the
jar files. What do you think about that? Yes we will have a lot of
"virtual packages" but this will also solve some issues.

We do now have the problem of versioning. But is it possible to
"Provide: foo.jar (= 1.2.3)".

If not that should be a great advantage.

The tool will just have to look at the package field and see what
it depends on, and add the apropriate jars to the classpath.
I can write such a tool and put it into java-common if you like. :)

With this alternative we almost have your repository, almost.

Regards,

// Ola

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