On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 3:45 PM, Brown, Carlton < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > -----Original Message----- > > From: Xavier Hanin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Monday, March 17, 2008 1:07 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: What notation is Ivy using here? > > > > On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 2:35 PM, Brown, Carlton > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This is probably a silly question, but please satisfy my > > curiosity. I > > > notice that Ivy refers to artifacts using this notation: > > > organisation#module;revision!filename > > > i.e: prpc#jars;5.3!prpc-5.3jar > > > > > > I've seen this notation elsewhere, what is its name/origin? > > Some information: > > http://ant.apache.org/ivy/history/latest-milestone/textual.html > > > > This notation has been introduced in Ivy 2.0 to help > > reference things more easily, both in mailing lists and > > console. I also use it in javarepo, making powerful queries > > very easy (see http://javarepo.xoocode.org/about "Searching > > Hints" for details if you are interested). > > > > You can also look in the ivy dev or ant dev mail archive for > > details about how we decided upon the convention. > > I found some discussion of the merits of using this convention. My > question is, was there other inspiration for it? I'm not 100% sure, but > I think I remember seeing PVCS use a very similar convention (if not the > same one). I was wondering if it came from some industry standard, > some other product, or you just coincidentally converged on the same > solution. I think we only coincidentally converged on the same solution. At least for me there wasn't much inspiration taken from outside. Xavier > > > ----------------------------------------- > ==================================================== > This message contains PRIVILEGED and CONFIDENTIAL > information that is intended only for use by the > named recipient. If you are not the named recipient, > any disclosure, dissemination, or action based on > the contents of this message is prohibited. In such > case please notify us and destroy and delete all > copies of this transmission. Thank you. > ==================================================== > -- Xavier Hanin - Independent Java Consultant http://xhab.blogspot.com/ http://ant.apache.org/ivy/ http://www.xoocode.org/
