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Yes - you are right they don't differ in this purpose. But it doesn't mean that one of them is not need. I think that repository is "easily navigated"Hi,
From: "Tim Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
'type' is there to logically group artifacts, to aid users browsing
the repository. For products with many artifacts, this makes navigating
the repository easier.
So the sole purpose of this is to make navigation easier? Isn't that what the groupID is meant to be used for? How does type/groupID differ in their purposes?
when both "groupId" and "type" directories co-exits.
(replaying to you other email)
"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.
You intuition is correct. But as I understand - we are trying to apply more analytical approach and split strings like ant-src-1.5.4.zip.md5 into smaller pieces so for example nobody uses
http://repo.apache.org/apache/ant/1.5.4/src-ant-1.5.4.tar.gz.asc http://repo.apache.org/apache/ant/1.5.4/ant-bin-1.5.4.zip
at the same time,
Nobody in fact uses - http://repo.apache.org/apache/ant/1.5.4/src-ant-1.5.4.tar.gz.asc
(at least very rarely) but we just want to describe more precisely what ant-bin-1.5.4.zip means and differentiate it from (e.g.) bin-ant-1.5.4.zip.
So it's like we want to formalize some intuitions and pratices.
regards
Michal
