Re: [Classpathx-discuss] Help needed gnu classpathx mail

[Chris Burdess]

Chris wrote:
> > > However I noticed that the classpathx implementation of mbox 
> > > requires the gnumail.jar gnu javamail implementation.
> >
> > if so it may be a packaging error. which classes in mbox.jar depend 
> > on which
> > classes in gnumail.jar not in sun's mail.jar?
>
> gnu/mail/treeutil/StatusSource

ok. this is a bit of a pain, since even if nobody uses the treeutil 
(progress listener) classes, there will still be other utility classes 
that will be used by provider implementations. clearly there are 2 ways 
to go: modularise everything even further, or just live with it (in 
this instance having gnumail.jar on the classpath as well).

if we were to just live with it, we might as well reduce the complexity 
of having a separate jar file for each provider, and just use configure 
options to determine which providers should be included in gnumail.jar. 
this makes deployment and provider management considerably easier. does 
anyone have any strong feelings on whether to do this or aggressively 
modularise (almost) every package into its own jar file?
--
Chris Burdess