Re: [seam-dev] Meeting 2011-08-17
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 22:48, Dan Allen <dan.j.allen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 22:27, Shane Bryzak
<sbryzak(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> Another thing to add to the agenda which we need to discuss is dependency
> scopes. In particular, we need to review our previous decision to make the
> implementation component of a module runtime-scoped, in light of the fact
> that we now no longer have combined jars.
>
Isn't the idea of having an API and implementation split is that you should
not be compiling against anything in the implementation? Of course, an end
user can choose to override that convention to make the implementation a
compile-time scope, but we don't want to encourage that, do we?
I'll add to that that I really, really don't think that having a single
dependency declaration is a holy grail. We have gone to great lengths to
have an API for Seam 3 and I think we should advocating the use of it (as
separate from the implementation). It's a minor inconvenience to add to the
POM (a complexity that Forge can tare), but far less convenient than
slipping into a dependency on an implementation class.
I do agree that we need to revisit it how it all works, but the goal should
be so that the API can be honored and that adding a dependency is consistent
from module to module.
-Dan
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