> From: Nick Chalko [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> Tim Anderson wrote:
> 
> >>From a tool perspective, it can unambiguously locate a project
> >when given inputs of:
> >  "org.apache"  -> must replace "." with "/" before performing lookup
> >  "org/apache"
> >  "oracle"
> >
> >The implication of this is that generic tools can't parse the URI
> >and determine what is part of the product-specifier and what is
> >part of the version-specifier.
> >
> >However, I don't think this is unreasonable. There is no requirement
> >that tools be able to parse URIs to extract meta-data.
> >
> >-Tim
> >  
> >
> I think easing the  job for tools is a good goal. 
> 
> We must support both Humans and Tools. 
> I would favor Humans.   But both humans and tools will have problems 
> when some orginzation decides its project name is Beta or nightly, etc
> 
> I think we should consider  not allowing / in many of the parts.
> 
> R,
> Nick

For tools, I think the main objective should be coming up with a set
of rules which enable them to unambigously locate an artifact given
a set of inputs.
I believe this is possible with the two proposals so far, at least
for java artifacts.

-Tim

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