On Nov 28, 2007 8:07 PM, Max Bowsher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Carlos Sanchez wrote:
> > As I said before it's easier to add the new bundles using
> > id=groupId+artifactId than to change the whole repo so artifactId can
> > be used as id
> >
> > You have to consider that the repository is not only for Maven users
>
> My point is that the repository is currently in a state where artifactId
> *can* be used as a unique id in _most_ circumstances, and tools have
> grown to rely on that (war, assembly plugins etc.), so it's perhaps not
> such a good idea to change the repository so that is no longer true.
we are NOT changing the repository. We are adding stuff to the
repository, and if everybody lived until now without it, I don't
anticipate a big problem on having it using the *same* layout as the
rest, which is, to compose an id you need both groupId+artifactId
Tools dont rely on just artifactId, maven doesn't, it just happens
that most of the people don't hit that bug, coincidence
>
>
>
> A somewhat tangential idea just occurred to me: If the desired future
> direction _does_ turn out to be that groupId and artifactId be
> considered irrelevant apart from each other, would it make sense for a
> future version of maven to simply have a POM syntax like this:?
>
> <dependency>
> <id>org.eclipse.core.resources</id>
> <version>3.2.1</version>
> </dependency>
>
> Or, to put the question another way, is there any conceptual difference
> between groupId and artifactId that suggests org.eclipse.core.resources
> should map as groupId=org.eclipse.core artifactId=resources, rather than
> groupId=org.eclipse artifactId=core.resources ?
Maven resolution takes into account groupId+artifactId, whether you
call it id or anything else it's an historical reason I guess.
Groups are supposed to split the repo in the same way as domain names
do. If you own org.eclipse I don't care if you put it in org.eclipse.x
or org.eclipse.y, it's your problem. What we are talking here is about
a way to automatically map osgi bundle ids to group/artifact ids, and
I'm not going to be the one manually choosing what should be the group
and artifact as then we'd never have the eclipse plugins in the repo
>
>
> Max.
>
>
>
--
I could give you my word as a Spaniard.
No good. I've known too many Spaniards.
-- The Princess Bride
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
