[hibernate-dev] Hibernate Planning

[Emmanuel Bernard]

On  Mar 25, 2009, at 15:55, Hardy Ferentschik wrote:

> 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.

I do not want to create a dependency between Search and Annotations.  
That's why I spinned off commons-annotations in the first place.