sounds good to me :-)
-Marshall
On 1/17/2018 7:30 AM, Richard Eckart de Castilho wrote:
> My understanding is that you suggested to change the artifact names from e.g.
> "uimaj-core" to "uimaj-core-j".
>
> If that is done, then Maven can no longer figure out that uimaj-core:2.10.2
> and uimaj-core-j:1.0.0 are mutually exclusive because - because the contain
> the same Java packages.
>
> So if the artifact ID is changed, then the package names should be changed.
> Apache Commons projects do this from time to time.
> E.g.
>
> - commons-lang:2.x has the package name "org.apache.commons.lang"
> - commons-lang3:3.x has the package name "org.apache.commons.lang3"
>
> Having the same package in different artifacts defies Mavens dependency
> resolution process. It may be necessary to add explicit "excludes" to POMs to
> avoid dragging in incompatible UIMAv2 dependencies just because they have a
> different artifact ID.
>
> I believe we already had the discussion of v2 and v3 co-existing at runtime
> (as e.g. commons-lang and commons-lang3 do) and it was decided that it would
> be too much effort. So the logical path to follow seems to me to continue
> with the existing group/artifactIds at version 3.
>
> We can continue doing releases of version 2.x and version 3.x artifacts from
> different branches in the repo.
>
> The only thing you need to observe is that if you want to import the v2 and
> the v3 branch simultaneously into the same Eclipse workspace, you need to
> change the project naming pattern in the "Import existing Maven projects"
> dialog, so that e.g. v2 modules are imported as "{artifactId}-v2" and v3
> modules as "{artifactId}-v3".
>
> -- Richard
>
>> On 16.01.2018, at 19:34, Marshall Schor <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> or perhaps you might mean changing the artifact name
>>
>> org.apache.uima : uimaj-core : 3.0.0
>> org.apache.uima : uimaj-core-j : 1.0.0
>>
>> In this example, following a (weak) convention of suffixing "-j" to indicate
>> the uima-v3 redesign version, and noting it could start with version 1.0.0...
>>
>> -Marshall
>>
>>
>> On 1/16/2018 1:26 PM, Marshall Schor wrote:
>>> By changing the "package names" - do you mean Java package names?
>>> e.g., we have org.apache.uima.UIMAFramework (class);
>>> what might be an alternative package name?
>>>
>>> Or do you mean a different maven coordinate "group" name?
>>>
>>> org.apache.uima : uimaj-core : 3.0.0
>>> (group) : (artifact-id) : version
>>>
>>> -Marshall
>
