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On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, Mark Taylor wrote:

> On Tue, 18 Jan 2005, Peter W. Draper wrote:
>
> > OK, so plan B would be to separate the application jar file classpath from
> > the classpath needed to compile against a package, i.e. split treeview
> > into a treeview.jar file that is really empty, but has the current
> > classpath and treeview-parts.jar (or whatever) that has all the source
> > code and compile-time classpath. This is what we do for the webstart
> > stuff!
>
> Good thinking, that would do it.  It would probably be more logical
> to require SPLAT and TOPCAT to have the dummy jars rather than Treeview,
> since those are the ones which are behaving badly (referencing
> post-built packages).
>
> However.  Over the years the amount of effort spent working around
> the fact that treeview is an (application+library) trying to get out
> is probably reaching the amount of effort required to actually get
> off my arse and split it in two, so I think I'll take this opportunity
> to have a serious look at this.

OK, you'll not get any arguments out of me.

Peter.