Re: [Fwd: Re: [JPackage-discuss] Re: Status of classpathx-mail, classpath-inetlib, gnu-crypto]

Chris Burdess wrote:
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> Thomas Fitzsimmons wrote:
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>>> When you say a "self-contained" javamail, you mean packaging all the
>>> classes needed at runtime into one JAR file? This would include a JSSE
>>> implementation, etc, as specified in the inetlib INSTALL file. It would
>>> get messy, especially when people wanted to mix and match with
>>> different VMs, library versions, etc.
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>> I think Fernando was suggesting that you could do this: import the
>> inetlib source tree directly into the javamail repository and replace
>> all references to gnu.inet with e.g. gnu.classpathx.mail.inet.
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> Well, there's no need to change the package names, these can remain the 
> same: there aren't any conflicts, and that would just add confusion.
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I believe the concern was that the application itself may also use 
inetlib and having loaded it from the inetlib jar proper cause 
duplicated class errors.