Attached is an archive which shows a sample repository structure
where the product-specifier contains >= 2 path segments.
Hopefully, this will carify things.
It contains:
. ant versions 1.5.2, 1.5.3-1, 1.5.4 and nightlies of 1.6alpha
. httpd 2.0.48
. jms 1.1
. jndi 1.2.1
. commons-collections 1.0, 2.0
. commons-cli 1.0, nightlies of 1.0 and 2.0
. commons-betwixt 1.0-alpha-1, nightlies of 1.0-beta-1-dev
(all sample files are empty)
-Tim
> From: Tim Anderson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> > From: Nick Chalko [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > Tim Anderson wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >>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.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > The only difference between
> > 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
> >
>
> The distinction between organisation and project would no longer exist:
> repository-uri = access-specifier "/" product-specifier "/"
>version-specifier "/" artifact-specifier
> product-specifier = path_segments
>
> i.e, the organisation, project, subproject etc, are encoded in the URI
> using 1-n path segments.
>
> To ensure that reserved words aren't included in product-specifier,
> it would need to be specified as:
> product-specifier = path_segments & ~reserved
> reserved = formal-build-designation | interim-build-designation
> | latest
> formal-build-designation = "release"
> interim-build-designation = "interim" | "nightly" | "snapshot" | ...
>
> This means:
> . tools cannot parse organisation, project etc details from the URI
> . tools can extract product-specifier, version-specifier, and
> artifact-specifier by parsing right to left.
>
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