[hibernate-dev] HSEARCH-851 Make Avro an optional dependency, good idea?

[Hardy Ferentschik]

On Fri, 19 Aug 2011 18:50:34 +0200, Emmanuel Bernard  
<emmanuel at hibernate.org> wrote:

> There are unforeseen consequences to making Avro an optional dependency.
> By doing that, I must make the SerializerProvider build process lazy or  
> tolerant at Runtime if Avro is not here.
> The problem with this approach is that if a user forgets to add Avro as  
> a dependency, his system will fail the first time a message ought to be  
> (de)serialized *at runtime* as opposed to fail at configuration time.

sorry, in my previous email I accidentally sent before being finished  
writing :-(

I don't think that it is really a big issue that thing will only fail at  
runtime.
There would be a simple error message telling you that there is no   
SerializerProvider
and it should not be too hard to add the right jars.

--Hardy