On Tue, 2009-03-24 at 21:51 -0400, Emmanuel Bernard wrote:
>>> 1) If commons-annotations *does not* rely on
hibernate-core in any
>>> way
>>> then I'm fine to break it it back out if that makes sense. However
>>> y'all need to be *extremely* careful about this and making sure
>>> about
>>> compatibility. The whole idea about moving these things back
>>> together
>>> was to make the compatibility "matrix" more manageable. Making
>>> incompatible changes in dependency common to core/annotations/em and
>>> search effectively makes those things incompatible as well. Same
>>> for integrating it into annotations.
I think Steve has a point and I am not sure whether commons-annotations
is worth breaking out again. Personally I would merge it into
Annotations. One less module to manage.
--Hardy