On Wed, 8 Aug 2001, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote:
> Sam Ruby wrote:
> >
> > Jason van Zyl wrote:
> > >
> > > Is there a reason why we're not placing the version number in the name of
> > > the JAR. I am trying to use a central repository of JARs for building all
> > > turbine projects and I know I will eventually run into a case where I need
> > > to store different versions of a package in the same directory.
> > >
> > > I know the version informatin is in the manifest, but you can't store
> > > multiple versions of packages in the same directory right now.
> >
> > IMHO, placing all the jars from disparate projects into a single directory
> > produces a mess. Pop quiz: where does optional.jar come from? That was an
> > easy one, eh? How about mail.jar? roles.jar? utils.jar? runtime.jar?
> > These are real names actually in use.
>
> Not that I think that we need a rule about this, but for jakarta
> projects, it would be so nice if projects at least put the project name
> on the jar filename.
>
> ant-optional.jar
>
> or better yet,
>
> jakarta-ant-optional.jar
>
Just for the record, the official name for this file in Ant 1.3 is
"jakarta-ant-1.3-optional.jar". I might quibble about having the version
number included, but it does tell you that it belongs to Ant :-).
Craig
