Re: How many repos?

It makes sense to me to bundle each set of extension steps with common
external dependencies into a jar of its own.

I don't see any problem with proliferating jars, personally.



On 7 April 2015 at 11:06, Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> wrote:

> Hello world,
>
> The modulization work I did recently makes it pretty easy to bundle
> XML Calabash extension steps in separate repositories. Just put all
> the relevant jar files on the classpath and you're done. It'll all
> "just work".
>
> I've separated some steps out into separate repositories already:
>
> * The MarkLogic XCC steps
> * The RDF steps
> * The DiTAA step (to resolve a weird build issue that I later
>   discovered was caused by PlantUML including an older version
>   of the DiTAA classes)
>
> Those are all extension steps and I'm tempted to break out a few more:
>
> * cx:metadata-extractor
> * cx:send-email
> * cx:plantuml
>
> Those are candidates mostly because they each have further
> dependencies so removing them makes the XML Calabash release smaller.
> They're also probably not widely used.
>
> More controversially, perhaps, I'm tempted to break FO processing out
> into a separate repository. FOP in particular has a lot of
> dependencies; moving it into a separate repo would reduce the size of
> the XML Calabash distribution by almost 25%. I'd probably move CSS
> processing out as well, just for parity.
>
> Practically speaking, this would mean that if you didn't also download
> the FO jars, you couldn't do FO processing with XML Calabash. (The
> p:xsl-formatter step would fail with a class-not-found exception.)
>
> One could go all the way to the absurd and bundle every step
> separately, but that'd clearly be overkill.
>
> I'd be intersted to hear with users and developers (especially
> developers that bundle XML Calabash into other products) think about
> the "multiple repos" question.
>
>                                         Be seeing you,
>                                           norm
>
> --
> Norman Walsh
> Lead Engineer
> MarkLogic Corporation
> Phone: +1 512 761 6676
> www.marklogic.com
>