Re: Aspectifying Luxor XUL

On Mon, 2004-04-19 at 04:00, Gerald Bauer wrote:
> Hello Dale,
> 
> > Sure, that would be good.  If you did the initial
> > import, that would
> > help me get up and running.  Let me know when
> > everything is ready.
> 
>   Please give me two to three days to get everything
> ready and setup.

Thanks

> > Also, would it be possible to add a /lib with all
> > the current
> > dependencies?
> 
>   Well, I know that the Luxor library dependency is a
> major hassle. Welcome to jar hell.

My concern is that the dependencies don't change underneath me while
working with the luxor core codebase.

>   There's no easy way to solve it. I'm not sure if
> checking in libraries would help. One alternative is
> to upload the latest libraries to the sourceforge site
> e.g http://luxor-xul.sourceforge.net/lib/*
> 
>   My prefered model is to use Maven to manage
> dependencies and to offer on-demand loading of
> libraries using repositories. I will take up the Maven
> switch over for real this week because the current
> situation is holding everybody back.
> 
>   Let me know if anyone has any ideas or alternative
> approaches on how to "solve" the dependency problem.
> Please note that cutting back on third-party libraries
> is a non-solution. The only way forward is reuse,
> reuse, reuse and that means building heavily on the
> work of others. Just using Sun only "standard"
> libraries is not the way forward. I'm sorry if anyone
> feels that this is a deal breaker/show stopper. 
> 
>   - Gerald

I'm very supportive of this perspective.  Like you said in a previous
message: we're not Eclipse, so we need to leverage as much as possible.



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