Re: [Springframework-developer] Keep Spring Focused WAS: commons-validatoradapter

[Seth L. <se...@eh...>]

> and provide extensions/plugins to the core. All are wildly successful. 
> So, what is the compelling argument to do otherwise? So far everyone one 
> has simply been restating shared goals not really explaining why they 
> prefer the all in one approach of distribution.

To answer your question:


Personally, I hate having to go out and download 20 different jars.  I 
hate having to work out interdependencies.  I hate resolving classpath 
issues after finding out I'm missing yet another jar.  I like it when 
projects include all their 3rd party jars needed to work instead of 
making me go out and get them.  I like it when I download a single 
tarball for a project.  Spring even has the best of two worlds here: I 
can download two different distributions, one w/ dependencies and one 
without.  They also make it really nice and create an uberjar or 
different specific jars.

So, Spring is nice because the distribution is nice.
Seth