Re: [Webtest] [dev] lib/optional directory - Paul King - com.canoo.lists.webtest

3 messages in com.canoo.lists.webtestRe: [Webtest] [dev] lib/optional dire...

From	Sent On	Attachments
Marc Guillemot	09 Dec 2005 02:23
Dierk Koenig	09 Dec 2005 02:58
Paul King	21 Dec 2005 04:40

Subject:	Re: [Webtest] [dev] lib/optional directory
From:	Paul King (pau...@asert.com.au)
Date:	12/21/2005 04:40:08 AM
List:	com.canoo.lists.webtest

Sorry for the late reply.

As a general principal, I would like us to move towards antlib style grouping of functionality. In theory (if I understand correctly) that would allow us to have separate jars for different parts of the functionality which we could import in as necessary, e.g. Core, PDFs, Applets, verifySchema, PropertyTable, Email Extension step, etc. That I guess would probably work best with separate subdirectories somewhere for each antlib (maybe lib/schema etc., maybe elsewhere).

I would still propose we include all functionality in the download just enable it through separate imports. Having said that, I haven't tried anything I have written using this approach yet so it may be harder than it looks! :-) In which case lib is OK by me. My lib/optional dir currently just contains jruby.jar and jython.jar which I use with scriptStep (neither are checked in).

Paul.

Marc Guillemot wrote:

Hi Developers,

in lib dir we have a subdirectory named optional. What is the meaning of it as long as we ship only one distribution?

I want to integrate Lothar Märkle's verifySchema and it contains many additional libraries. Due to this optional subdirectory, I don't know if they are better placed directly in lib or in lib/optional. Any thoughts?

Marc.