[news.eclipse.tools.jdt] Re: Which Eclipse project files to be placed un

[Michael Ludwig <louisseize@xxxxxx>]

Eric,

you've made me reconsider the issue. What I had in mind were JARs including the version number, like:

xom-1.2.1.jar
xom-1.2.2.jar
log4j-1.2.15.jar

With those, the version is in the filename - so there does not seem to be any point in versioning the file. Of course, Joe Evil could rename the file - but he really shouldn't.

(Okay, in order for this to be safe, there should be something in the build mechanism that ensures the JAR file is there with the correct version to prevent the build from succeeding with another version.)

On the other hand, it's true that many JARs are not distributed with a version number or only with a partial version number:

saxon9.jar
xercesImpl.jar
xalan.jar

For those, there has to be some sort of versioning. Joe Evil would probably rename them, but I'll hitherforth consider putting them under version control.

Thanks for your thoughts.