Dain Sundstrom wrote:
Do you think this is something people will be typeing often. My guess
I think the goal is for people to not being typing this often :) I think the
ultimate form (string or maven style) is less important that what is required
and what is optional.
is that the defaults will work 98% and I think most of our users will
either use our maven plugins (and ant ones one day) or the eclipse
tooling to manage these, so they would never type them anyway.
Your prediction may be true but I have seen both types of DDs. Inevitably one
will hand edit them outside of tooling. In my opinion, the simpler the better :)
On Jan 26, 2006, at 1:14 PM, Matt Hogstrom wrote:
I kind of like the string form as its easier to type. It works well
if you take Dain's ideas and reverse the version and the type so you
have:
geronimo/foo - Means I'll take what's current in the server
geronimo/foo/car - If you want to be specific about it being a car
or other type
geronimo/foo/car/[1.0,2.0( - If you need to be really specific.
I'm gut it telling me that this deviation from the maven standard
format will cause us big pains later, but I don't have any thing specific.
How many different types are there? If its limited and can generally
be derived from a context then perhaps the existing ordering works.
I think the most common types are jar, ear, war, rar and car. In the
context of a configId, parentId, or import the most common type by a
long shot is car. The only other type I commonly see is rar, for all
the connectors.
I'm ok with the second form if its the easier.
Good to know. I think we need to chew on this one for a while before
making any moves :)
-dain
