Re: How do you handle overlapping jar-packages?
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 07:04:00PM +0200, RalfGesellensetter wrote:
> Am Montag 30 Juni 2008 schrieb Florian Grandel:
> > Thank you very much for your opinion. That's what I was thinking as
> > well and how I started doing it now.
>
> Hi Florian, hi Michael,
>
> sounds sound to me - but:
> Intersection also implies waste of space. In cases where the overlapping
> base classes extend 1 MB (after installation) and take more than the
> half of all, it might be better to create a base-package and state
> dependencies of server and client packages against this base package.
>
> In some cases, the overhead of the client package is that low, that you
> could make the server package (w/o base classes) dependent on the
> client package (incl. base classes).
>
> What do you think?
Creating different JAR contents than upstream only leads to user
irritation. Disk space is relativly cheap today so that should not be an
issue.
Cheers,
Michael
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