Re: licensing issues for virtual artifacts (was RE: click through license support?)

2003-11-24 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr
On Nov 23, 2003, at 4:02 PM, Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote: I'm the Apache JCP rep, and have had some talks with Sun about this issue. The object is to get a formal agreement from Sun to allow us to do this, without us having to try and interpret the license agreement. +1 to short circuit this

Re: Use of '/' in ???-specifier's

2003-11-24 Thread Nick Chalko
Tim Anderson wrote: For advocates of URI parsing, what problems are you trying to solve? * Discovery of what is available * Repository exploring. * Auto cleanup of repositories. The URI spec is too loose. As far as I can tell these are legal

RE: Use of '/' in ???-specifier's

2003-11-24 Thread Tim Anderson
From: Nick Chalko [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tim Anderson wrote: For advocates of URI parsing, what problems are you trying to solve? * Discovery of what is available * Repository exploring. * Auto cleanup of repositories. The URI spec is too loose. As far as I can tell

Re: Use of '/' in ???-specifier's

2003-11-24 Thread Nick Chalko
Tim Anderson wrote: http://repo.apache.org/alpha/alpha/alpha/alpha/alpha/alpha.jar http://repo.apache.org/1/2/3/4/5/6/7/8/9.jar We really need to harden the URI spec a little and the / is a good start. I missed that the jars or type dir was required. what about,

Re: Use of '/' in ???-specifier's

2003-11-24 Thread Nick Chalko
Tim Anderson wrote: From: Nick Chalko [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tim Anderson wrote: http://repo.apache.org/alpha/alpha/alpha/alpha/alpha/alpha.jar http://repo.apache.org/1/2/3/4/5/6/7/8/9.jar We really need to harden the URI spec a little and the / is a good start. I missed

RE: Use of '/' in ???-specifier's

2003-11-24 Thread Tim Anderson
Not a criticism, but I'd prefer to know the requirements, before writing the tools. As far as I can tell, maven doesn't do URI parsing. I don't know a lot about Gump, but if it wants to pull down the newest versions of jars, it can via the latest version tag [1]. Avalon adds meta-data, which is

RE: Test/Prototypical Repository

2003-11-24 Thread Tim Anderson
Not quite. The log4j-1.2.8.zip binary should be log4j-1.2.8-bin.zip according to http://nagoya.apache.org/wiki/apachewiki.cgi?ASFRepository/JavaArtifacts I would expect the log4j 1.2.8 release (with debug versions of jars and binaries) to look something like: apache/ (organisation)

Re: Use of '/' in ???-specifier's

2003-11-24 Thread Nick Chalko
Tim Anderson wrote: Not a criticism, but I'd prefer to know the requirements, before writing the tools. Here is a user story. point a tool at the http://repo.apache.org and have it display what is available This is much easier to do if we can tell the version from the product from the

Re: Use of '/' in ???-specifier's

2003-11-24 Thread Adam R. B. Jack
Not a criticism, but I'd prefer to know the requirements, before writing the tools. I know, I've been a huge advocate of that, but I'm starting to worry we are in analysis paralysis. Logical URIs are so virtual it is easy to miss practical implications. As such, I'd like to test the theory

Re: Test/Prototypical Repository

2003-11-24 Thread Ben Walding
I'm still not convinced that binaries is better than binary as a type directory. See my original comments that must have lost in the ether (section 2) - http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/[EMAIL PROTECTED]msgId=1124258 Cheers, Ben Adam R. B. Jack wrote: All, As a way to force me to review the