Spring's need for optional dependencies

[Stephen Colebourne]

And here are the threads for Joda projects, which also need optional
dependencies:
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jigsaw-dev/2015-December/005462.html
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jigsaw-dev/2015-December/005638.html

Note, I do not consider command line flags to be acceptable as a solution.

Stephen


On 17 December 2015 at 09:41, Stephane Epardaud <stef at epardaud.fr> wrote:
> As I already mentioned, we also have the need for this in Ceylon, for
> the same reasons. Dependencies are required at compile-time but optional
> at run-time, based on detection: if it's there fine, if not then no problem.