Am 07/28/16 um 17:37 schrieb Andreas Sewe: > Jason van Zyl wrote: >> It’s all Maven specific, it’s always been Maven specific and that’s >> unlikely to change after how many years? Even if it can employ >> different strategies it’s still the Maven Artifact Resolution API. No >> one is going to use this API to resolve from NuGet, NPMJS, PyPi or >> anything else. Let’s just make it better for our specific use cases >> instead of imagining this is going to be a general purpose tool. It >> is clear that this never happened and probably never will. > > I think the confusion stems from the fact that there is both Maven (the > tool) and the Maven repository format (the combination of directory > structure, maven-metadata.xml, checksums files, etc.). > > The API we are talking about is for the Maven repository format and not > some other repository format (like p2, NuGet, ...). It may be used by > Maven *and* other tools (like Gradle, sbt, ...). In that sense, it is > *not* specific to the Maven tool, but it is specific to the Maven > repository format. Hence, calling it something with Maven in the name > makes sense to me.
+1 > FWIW, we (the Eclipse Code Recommenders project) have been using (first > Sonatype, then Eclipse) Aether since ~2010 to download recommendation > models stored in a repository which does follow the Maven repository > format, but which does not store your typical artifacts (JARs with > pom.xml). If that use case is still supported by the new API, I really > don't care how the API is called. ;-) +1 It's an abstraction to access Maven(-format) repositories in a consistent way. Project name could be "Maven Repositories" and the artifacts could be maven-repositories-api maven-repositories-impl maven-repositories-utilities etc. No need to add "API" to the project name. It's more than that. In the end, it's just a name. We should avoid what was done in the past and try to use a self-describing name. We had to tell people what "Aether" stands for every now and then. This should be avoided. Regards, -- Christian --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org
