Re: [luxor-xul-develop] Aspectifying Luxor XUL

[Gerald B. <ge...@va...>]

Hello Dale,

> Sure, that would be good.  If you did the initial
> import, that would
> help me get up and running.  Let me know when
> everything is ready.

  Please give me two to three days to get everything
ready and setup.
 
> Also, would it be possible to add a /lib with all
> the current
> dependencies?

  Well, I know that the Luxor library dependency is a
major hassle. Welcome to jar hell.

  There's no easy way to solve it. I'm not sure if
checking in libraries would help. One alternative is
to upload the latest libraries to the sourceforge site
e.g http://luxor-xul.sourceforge.net/lib/* 

  My prefered model is to use Maven to manage
dependencies and to offer on-demand loading of
libraries using repositories. I will take up the Maven
switch over for real this week because the current
situation is holding everybody back.

  Let me know if anyone has any ideas or alternative
approaches on how to "solve" the dependency problem.
Please note that cutting back on third-party libraries
is a non-solution. The only way forward is reuse,
reuse, reuse and that means building heavily on the
work of others. Just using Sun only "standard"
libraries is not the way forward. I'm sorry if anyone
feels that this is a deal breaker/show stopper. 

  - Gerald