tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8002601680803116224.post8548144807716984422..comments2023-05-02T11:46:53.727+02:00Comments on Ancient Programming (Old): A badly packaged project will break builds!Jacob von Eybenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05495303543777256635noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8002601680803116224.post-45261530663636000562007-08-14T10:30:00.000+02:002007-08-14T10:30:00.000+02:00@tech per:Yes I do prefer fine-grained dependencie...@tech per:<BR/>Yes I do prefer fine-grained dependencies but as I wrote, people (read: I do) tend to "cut corners" from time to time when possible - in this case it came right back at me.<BR/><BR/>But the problem as I see it lies in the packaging of spring. They should not even distribute an all mighty spring-all.jar in the first place.<BR/>Using an all xyz-all.jar is like peeing to keep you warm.<BR/>As your project developes your pom.xml will quickly end up with a lot of transitive dependency 'excludes'.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8002601680803116224.post-43458660985272551372007-08-14T09:38:00.000+02:002007-08-14T09:38:00.000+02:00Isn't the "we hate maven" bashing period you menti...Isn't the "we hate maven" bashing period you mention over by now? I think we have come to "we like maven better than ant most of the time" period now :-)<BR/><BR/>If you abstract your actual problem away, don't you like fine-grained dependencies better than a mighty spring-all.jar?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com