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Re: [jgit-dev] Introduction of new dependency (Apache Commons Codec or Guava) into JGit?
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On Fri, Apr 7, 2023 at 12:16 PM Xeno Amess <xenoamess@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Hi.
> I have some commits in both repos so I could say they be both good repos, with good maintenance from good people.
> However according to the situation here I think commons compress is more suitable.
> As:
> 1. It evolves slower. Well commons libs actually don't change much things in these 10 years or so, especially when you see it from compatibility side.
> However guava, well, they moves really fast, and have more than 50+ major versions. So as a basic lib jgit might better choose commons compress.(well if you saying for a micro-service things might be quite different.)
> And guava have some versions, for jre, for android, etc.
> So I would not recommend you using guava as a lib, please imagine if a microservice using a different guava version than you choose and wanna use jgit also, well the BC issues would be a headache(even nightmare)
> 2. It is smaller than guava. guava's jar seems 10+ times larger than commons-compress.
A note that I'm looking into codec, not compress (which is already
used by JGit). But I think that most of your points also apply to
codec. Let me try out codec and see how it goes.
