Packaging large Java software stacks ?

[Matthias Klose]

Thierry Carrez schrieb:
> That's a difficult one to answer, since there is no API versioning in
> JARs, but apparently a lot of new releases do. The Geronimo developers
> told me the slightest version change frequently breaks the TCK JavaEE
> compliance tests, and using the latest is usually not the best. To get
> an idea of the (runtime) components versioning complexity, see [1]. The
> -Gnnnnnn versions means it's a Geronimo-patched version of the JAR that
> is used.
> 
> [1] http://cwiki.apache.org/GMOxDOC22/component-versions.html

I don't think all of these should translate into packages. Looking at Netbeans
you have hundreds or more components or modules, but just a few packages. I
doubt that we do want to package those all separately.

  Matthias