On 17 February 2017 at 01:19, Stephen Colebourne <scolebou...@joda.org> wrote: > > However, I remain of the opinion that they are highly dangerous for > the wider ecosystem without some additional ability to qualify them. > The are many more private jars than public jars, and the clashes seen > today on Maven Central are just the tip of the iceberg of this > problem. > I can only agree with this. s/willow/spark/ and we have an example of such a situation in maven already today, of two different libraries with the same name. With the options to specify group, no problem, then I could just write: requires spark-core from com.sparkjava or requires spark-core from org.apache.spark in order to clarify which was intended.
/Michael
