On Mar 9, 2010, at 2:06 PM, Alasdair Nottingham wrote: > Maven insists on naming the jar artifactid-version.jar since we wanted our > jars to follow the bundle_symolicname-version.jar convention it forces > duplication in the artifact id. > > This is why I was asking if we could get the jar name to be generated from > the group and artifact id on IRC last week.
That's not really answering my question. artifactid is essentially the jar file name and trying to get maven to act otherwise, is just going to have a bad ending... So, to rephrase in your terms, why does the jar file name need to follow the current naming convention? --kevan
