On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 06:31 pm, Tim Anderson wrote: > URI Components > -------------- > > An absolute repository URI is written as follows: > > repository-uri = access-specifier "/" product-specifier "/" > artifact-specifier > > For java artifacts, artifact-specifier is: > > artifact-specifier = [type "/"] artifact > type = "jars" | "wars" | "rars" | "tlds" | "binaries" | "source" > > | "licenses" | ... > > artifact = artifact-name ["-" version] ["-" stype][.ext] > artifact-name = *pchar > stype = "bin" | "src" > ext = "jar" | "war" | "rar" | "tld" | "tar.gz" | "zip" | ...
"type" seems to be a rather artificial component. There should be no artefacts with the same name but different types thus no conflicts if they are in the same directory. ie Why not have http://repo.apache.org/apache/ant/1.5.4/ant-1.5.4.jar http://repo.apache.org/apache/ant/1.5.4/ant-1.5.4.jar.md5 http://repo.apache.org/apache/ant/1.5.4/ant-optional-1.5.4.jar http://repo.apache.org/apache/ant/1.5.4/ant-optional-1.5.4.jar.md5 http://repo.apache.org/apache/ant/1.5.4/ant-bin-1.5.4.zip http://repo.apache.org/apache/ant/1.5.4/ant-bin-1.5.4.zip.md5 http://repo.apache.org/apache/ant/1.5.4/ant-bin-1.5.4.tar.gz http://repo.apache.org/apache/ant/1.5.4/ant-bin-1.5.4.tar.gz.asc http://repo.apache.org/apache/ant/1.5.4/ant-src-1.5.4.zip http://repo.apache.org/apache/ant/1.5.4/ant-src-1.5.4.zip.md5 http://repo.apache.org/apache/ant/1.5.4/ant-src-1.5.4.tar.gz http://repo.apache.org/apache/ant/1.5.4/ant-src-1.5.4.tar.gz.asc http://repo.apache.org/apache/ant/1.5.4/LICENSE-1.5.4.txt http://repo.apache.org/apache/ant/1.5.4/KEYS-1.5.4 Also "stype" seems like another artificial distinction. Is not two artefacts with different "stype"s just two different artefacts. ie ant-src-1.5.4.tar.gz ==> artifact-name == ant-src ant-bin-1.5.4.tar.gz ==> artifact-name == ant-bin It seems that is just adding extra distinctions that are not really needed. And I can't see any benefit of these extra distinctions. -- Cheers, Peter Donald *-------------------------------------------* | "A handful of sand is an anthology of the | | universe." -Albert Einstein | *-------------------------------------------*
