The split package problem

[Jochen Theodorou]

On 04.11.2016 12:36, Sander Mak wrote:
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>> On 04 Nov 2016, at 12:06, Cédric Champeau <cedric.champeau at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> It's a very big issue, typically all Gradle plugins written in Groovy would
>> break. Gradle itself would break. There are things to mitigate that, like
>> rewriting classes at load time, or an easier solution which is to have a
>> single Groovy module for all (and come back to the monolith era, sigh...).
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> Wouldn't a better solution be to provide a groovy-all module that 'requires transitive' the other actual groovy modules.

I agree in that we should have done this... but

> (probably moving the split packages back together in a module)

that is exactly the problem. if you move them back, you get half of the 
dependencies along, which makes the modules itself kind of obsolete.

bye Jochen