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- Changes can be tracked down much faster
- searching for dependency changes only affects revisions of "dependencies.xml"
- Lesser conflicts/merges necessary
- shorter files --> easier to navigate and locate informations
- template/shared files may be copied/linked into the directory
- some other proposals ask for thinks that could be solved with this option very easily
- this could be done using SVN copy / external definitions. But maybe there could also be added some kind of special references later.
- Adding hibernate/spring/myComplexDependency could be a one liner.
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One problem is, that there exist several 3rd party parsers (IDE integration etc.). But they should be able to implement the changes very fast.
Maybe it is necessary to change/extend the XML schema for those files. Could anyone provide some informations about this issue?