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Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2006 15:50:08 -0600
From: "Bruce Snyder" <bruce.snyder@gmail.com>
To: dev@geronimo.apache.org
Subject: Re: Restructuring trunk, then next steps
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On 9/5/06, Jason Dillon <jason@planet57.com> wrote:
> I am sure that some of these names will change...
>
> But the directory name should be the same as the artifactId... so
> that its easy to see where the source for artifacts come from, and
> because some maven plugins that work on sets of modules make that
> assumption (like site plugin for example) when running.
>
> This is a best practice with Maven... and I don't recommend moving
> away from that.
>
> Before we already had things like console-jetty making a jar named
> webconsole-jetty-* and others too which only make it more difficult
> to tell where these things come from.

I agree with this 100%. IMO, this is probably one of the biggest
benefits that Maven provides - the ability to look at an artifact
named foobar-baz-1.2.3.jar and you just know that it comes from the
foobar-baz directory. This makes navigating the directory structure
much easier. The last thing I want to see us do is bury everything
about the way Geronimo is built in the buid tool configuration. This
still happens with many, many projects (both closed and open source)
that use Ant and it drives me insane. Why should I have to dig into an
Ant build.xml file just to figure out how a particular artifact is
produced!? I want the ability to see this at a glance.

Bruce
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