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Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2016 11:21:15 +0200
From: Gilles <gilles@harfang.homelinux.org>
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Subject: Re: [ALL] Dist layout change to per version directories
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On Mon, 25 Apr 2016 10:06:12 +0100, sebb wrote:
> On 25 April 2016 at 09:13, Emmanuel Bourg <ebourg@apache.org> wrote:
>> Le 25/04/2016 03:04, sebb a écrit :
>>
>>> However the distribution naming convention needs to distinguish
>>> between releases using different Java packages.
>>
>> I don't think that's a justified requirement, unless we intent to 
>> use
>> the same version with different packages (for example a version 3.5 
>> of
>> commons-lang using the old org.apache.commons.lang package, and a
>> version 3.5 using the new org.apache.commons.lang3 package). This 
>> will
>> never happen.
>
> Never suggests it is impossible; however that is not the case.
> It hasn't happened yet, but I can imagine that there might be a 
> reason
> to maintain two parallel release versions.
>
> Note that the artifact names themselves use the artifactid.
> So using it in the folder name would be no different.
>
>>> So how do you suggest fixing that problem?
>>
>> As I suggested, by not using the artifactId. The options are:
>> 1. [component]-[version]/
>> 2. [version]/
>>
>> The option 2 has my preference (the path already contains the name 
>> of
>> the component, no need to repeat it).

I also choose option 2.
[And option 1 is a confusing hybrid.]

Gilles


> There are occasions when having the component name can be useful.
> For example when checking out the tag for votes.
> Possibly less of an issue for the dist tree, but I found it a big
> nuisance when checking out SVN tags for multiple votes.
>
>> Emmanuel Bourg


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