Opinions on "conditional" Spring files

[Rod Widdowson]

> Haven't reviewed the full set, but candidates would be anything that got added as an import post-3.0 because it probably was added
to
> deal with edge cases.

That makes a lot of sense.  Edge conditions would argue envelope pushing deployments and I'd guess that these sort of deployers will
know the documentation (and Spring) well enough to be able to exploit this.
 
> As I think I said, we're pretty close to just having a conversation about forking. 

Sadly that makes sense.  In particular (although this may be unrelated) isn't the Velocity nonsense all in this space too?

> . It's a dead library, yet another that refuses to
> admit it for whatever weird reason causes these libraries to zombify in silence.

Ah yes.  There's at least one SP dependency like that too isn't there? Although the SP begins to cause my brain to explode because
it has the confusion of Vendors who tend to mess things up by shipping their own builds.  Kinda, sometimes...

R