Tim Anderson wrote:
The only difference between
The fact that commons-lang and commons-io are both part of the same
Jakarta Project has no meaning to a repository.
True, but users browsing the repository can find them easier if they are grouped together.
commons/lang and commons-lang is the number of items in a directory.
but again if we allow arbitrary number of "/" before the the artifact part how can we tell what the project is
we are back to http://repo.com/alpha/beta/alpha/beta/dist/beta-alpha.zip http://repo.com/dist/nightly/dist/dist/dist/dist/foo.zip
Silly examples but with out a RIGID spec it will happen. Someone will want to name thier project Alpha, or nightly or the orginaztion will be named dist or intrim or snapshot.
Lets just pick a number of groupings one or two or three and stick with it. Allow the "/" to have special meaning.
R, Nick
