Why are the emitter descriptors in separate packages from the emitters themselves?

Jesse Weinstein

<p>Each BIRT emitter (the code that produces the output) has two packages: org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.emitter.config.<em>name</em> and org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.emitter.<em>name</em> (e.g. org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.emitter.config.html and org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.emitter.html ). Does anyone have any idea why this is? What benefit does it provide?  And which one should depend on the other?</p><p> </p><p>See <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='https://git.eclipse.org/c/birt/org.eclipse.birt.git/log/engine/org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.emitter.config.html'>https://git.eclipse.org/c/birt/org.eclipse.birt.git/log/engine/org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.emitter.config.html</a></p&gt;

mwilliams

<p>It looks like the config package is separate to allow you to change how the emitter is configured easily without having to rebuild the entire emitter.</p>