Re: URI syntax

[Nick Chalko]

Noel J. Bergman wrote:
The consensus seems to be forming around a basic URI of
 /project/version/artifact
such as
http://repo.apache.org/org.apache.ant/1.5/ant.jar
   

I'm not sure, yet, that there is a consensus forming.  For example, Peter
Kazmier replied to Craig McClanahan's message about commons-foo-x.y.jar, and
suggested:
 

To grab the latest released version:
   commons-foo-RELEASE.jar
To grab the latest nightly build:
   commons-foo-SNAPSHOT.jar
And of course, to grab a specific version:
   commons-foo-x.y.jar
   

Unless you view "-" and "/" purely as separators without the directory
hierarchy connotations.
And my descriptor-based proposal doesn't specify or mandate the artifact's
URI, only the URI for the project descriptor.  The latter would provide
provide URIs for its constituent artifact(s), amongst other things.
	--- Noel
 

Overspoke
The consensus seems to be forming for single level projects. 

Still discussing
/project/version/artifact  vs /project/artifiact-version
I think we should do both a discriptor and a "Standard" artifiact URL , 
so that people can be lazy and have a repository without a descriptor.
And tools can crawl a repository and build a descriptor from it.

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