Re: URI syntax

2004-05-04 Thread Nick Chalko
Michael Davey wrote: I'd suggest that the change to project be a mandate. The change could be considered a clarification to improve consistency in naming. The alternative would be to let, say, Commons Net define their project as commons-net while Commons IO may choose to call their project

Re: URI syntax

2004-05-04 Thread Nick Chalko
Disregard, I miss read this. Nick Chalko wrote: Michael Davey wrote: I'd suggest that the change to project be a mandate. The change could be considered a clarification to improve consistency in naming. The alternative would be to let, say, Commons Net define their project as commons-net

RE: [proposal] URI Syntax - v0.2

2003-11-15 Thread Tim Anderson
://repo.apache.org/org/apache/commons-logging this makes more sense as org / project http://repo.apache.org/org-apache/commons-logging regards, -Anou From: Tim Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [proposal] URI Syntax - v0.2 Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 16

Re: [proposal] URI Syntax - v0.2

2003-11-15 Thread Nick Chalko
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

RE: [proposal] URI Syntax - v0.2

2003-11-15 Thread Tim Anderson
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

Re: [proposal] URI Syntax - v0.2

2003-11-15 Thread Nick Chalko
Tim Anderson wrote: ink 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

RE: [proposal] URI Syntax - v0.2

2003-11-15 Thread Noel J. Bergman
place? Without meta-data, there is a limit to what the tool can do. Basically, it would have to operate relative to the URL provided to it. As for the particular examples you gave, those carry semantic meaning that would require more specification that is contained in the URI syntax. Although those

Re: [proposal] URI Syntax - v0.2

2003-11-15 Thread Adam R. B. Jack
Noel wrote: Adam, and how is said tool going to start in the first place? Without meta-data, there is a limit to what the tool can do. Basically, it would have to operate relative to the URL provided to it. My input here is primarily based on writting Ruper (http://www.krysalis.org/ruper),

RE: [proposal] URI Syntax - v0.2

2003-11-15 Thread Tim Anderson
From: Adam R. B. Jack [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] snip/ You could have the client tool be told the resource/URI by the user, and do the download/verification, yes. That said, I don't think it buys the user enough, they have to browse/locate stash the URI in some local config. I'd like to say

RE: [proposal] URI Syntax - v0.2

2003-11-15 Thread Noel J. Bergman
My input here is primarily based on writting Ruper You don't have to like the tool, I'm not trying to push the implementation I've never even seen the thing, and you are a priori assuming that I don't like it? It allows you to query what is there, query and capture oldest resources [and do

RE: [proposal] URI Syntax - v0.2

2003-11-15 Thread Tim Anderson
From: Noel J. Bergman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] My input here is primarily based on writting Ruper You don't have to like the tool, I'm not trying to push the implementation I've never even seen the thing, and you are a priori assuming that I don't like it? It allows you to query

Parsable URI (Re: [proposal] URI Syntax - v0.2)

2003-11-15 Thread Adam R. B. Jack
Noel wrote: You don't have to like the tool, I'm not trying to push the implementation I've never even seen the thing, and you are a priori assuming that I don't like it? No Neol, I'm not that emoition, I meant it dispassionately and without inference, maybe it just read differently. That

RE: Parsable URI (Re: [proposal] URI Syntax - v0.2)

2003-11-15 Thread Tim Anderson
The URI proposals so far specify URIs which are just as parseable as those currently in use by maven's repository [1]. The only caveat is that they need to be parsed from right to left, as the organisation [2] part of product-specifier cannot be separated from the directory part of

RE: [VOTE] Where is version in URI Syntax

2003-11-14 Thread Tim Anderson
I've restructured the wiki page at http://nagoya.apache.org/wiki/apachewiki.cgi?ASFRepository/WhereIsVersionInU RISytnax, and removed the part about symbolic links. -Tim -Original Message- From: Nick Chalko [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 14 November 2003 11:00 AM To: [EMAIL

URI Syntax: nightly and release builds

2003-11-14 Thread Tim Anderson
The URISyntax proposal is silent on how to handle nightly, release, snapshot, and latest builds. This should be formalised. The current proposal has: product-specifier = organisation / project / version where: version = *pchar To support nightlies etc, this leads to the possibility of

Re: URI Syntax: nightly and release builds

2003-11-14 Thread Stephen McConnell
because I think I have resolved how to do everything I want relative to java based on these two layers). The URI Syntax proposal [2] that the above extends is becoming a little thin. That's fine. It just means we have a simple and specific specification dealing with a simple and specific

Re: [proposal] URI Syntax - v0.2

2003-11-14 Thread Anou Manavalan
Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [proposal] URI Syntax - v0.2 Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 16:39:06 +1100 This version replaces v1.0: http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/[EMAIL PROTECTED]ms gNo=308 Overview The key aims of this proposal

Tooling (was Version Specifier in Re: [proposal] URI Syntax - v0.2)

2003-11-14 Thread Adam R. B. Jack
Its great idea to make Artifact Specifier to be opaque to give way to different languages, but I am not sure about the Version Specifier. Version Specifier can be considered as language independent and allowing different best practices in there would make the repository unordered and could

RE: Comments on URI Syntax

2003-11-10 Thread Tim Anderson
From: Stephen McConnell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tim Anderson wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] From the requirements at http://nagoya.apache.org/wiki/apachewiki.cgi?ASFRepository/Requirements: ASF Repository shall ... allow browsing and downloading of artifacts by

Re: Comments on URI Syntax

2003-11-10 Thread Stephen McConnell
Tim Anderson wrote: By implication - the README is not an artifact but a feature of a version. Is that a reasonable conclusion? Stephen. Why make the distinction? I view everything a project deploys as an artifact. Some artifacts will only be useful to end users (e.g, README, LICENSE.txt

Re: Comments on URI Syntax

2003-11-10 Thread Stephen McConnell
Woops - see small correction in line. Stephen McConnell wrote: Tim Anderson wrote: By implication - the README is not an artifact but a feature of a version. Is that a reasonable conclusion? Stephen. Why make the distinction? I view everything a project deploys as an artifact. Some artifacts

RE: Comments on URI Syntax

2003-11-10 Thread dion
Tim Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 10/11/2003 10:53:47 AM: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] From the requirements at http://nagoya.apache.org/wiki/apachewiki.cgi?ASFRepository/Requirements: ASF Repository shall ... allow browsing and downloading of artifacts

Re: Comments on URI Syntax

2003-11-10 Thread dion
Stephen McConnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 10/11/2003 10:58:09 AM: By implication - the README is not an artifact but a feature of a version. Is that a reasonable conclusion? I'd question the value of distributing a README as a single file. In the maven world, we have a type called

Re: Comments on URI Syntax

2003-11-10 Thread Stephen McConnell
Tim Anderson wrote: From: Stephen McConnell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Woops - see small correction in line. Stephen McConnell wrote: Tim Anderson wrote: By implication - the README is not an artifact but a feature of a version. Is that a reasonable conclusion? Stephen.

index.html (was Comments on URI Syntax

2003-11-10 Thread Adam R. B. Jack
http://repo.apache.org/apache/commons-logging/1.0.3/index.html Clearly, this is only useful to users browsing the repository, and therefore makes no sense to include the version information. On index.html, wouldn't we discourage the use of this? Wouldn't we want the HTTP server to do a

Re: Comments on URI Syntax

2003-11-09 Thread Jason van Zyl
On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 01:41, Tim Anderson wrote: I have a few comments on the proposed URI Syntax, from http://nagoya.apache.org/wiki/apachewiki.cgi?ASFRepository/URISyntax. quote Compromise URI http://host/project/version/artifact-[version;].ext For example http

RE: Comments on URI Syntax

2003-11-09 Thread dion
Where is Tim's Layout? -- dIon Gillard, Multitask Consulting Blog: http://blogs.codehaus.org/people/dion/ Pub Key:http://blogs.codehaus.org/people/dion/public-key.asc Noel J. Bergman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 09/11/2003 06:22:51 PM: Jason, I think that Tim's ideas were pretty

RE: Comments on URI Syntax

2003-11-09 Thread Tim Anderson
http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/[EMAIL PROTECTED]ms gNo=266 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 9 November 2003 7:28 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Comments on URI Syntax Where is Tim's Layout? -- dIon Gillard, Multitask

RE: Comments on URI Syntax

2003-11-09 Thread Jason van Zyl
On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 02:22, Noel J. Bergman wrote: Jason, I think that Tim's ideas were pretty well-thought out and reflect a workable consensus. The changes you are making to his ideas, if I read the correctly, are to mandate a couple of things that he did not rule out, but permitted to

Re: Comments on URI Syntax

2003-11-09 Thread Stephen McConnell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From the requirements at http://nagoya.apache.org/wiki/apachewiki.cgi?ASFRepository/Requirements: ASF Repository shall ... allow browsing and downloading of artifacts by humans via normal web browser. Requiring a version to be part of the artifact file name when the

RE: Comments on URI Syntax

2003-11-09 Thread Tim Anderson
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] From the requirements at http://nagoya.apache.org/wiki/apachewiki.cgi?ASFRepository/Requirements: ASF Repository shall ... allow browsing and downloading of artifacts by humans via normal web browser. Requiring a version to be part of

Re: Comments on URI Syntax

2003-11-09 Thread Stephen McConnell
Tim Anderson wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] From the requirements at http://nagoya.apache.org/wiki/apachewiki.cgi?ASFRepository/Requirements: ASF Repository shall ... allow browsing and downloading of artifacts by humans via normal web browser. Requiring a version

Re: URI Syntax was: Repository

2003-10-31 Thread Adam R. B. Jack
Some artifacts don't like having the full version number. dll for example. I think the DLL name needs to be stable and thus would not have the full version info. For the dll example we can mandate that it has to be put in a versioned zip/tar.gzip If we continue to think 100% generically

Re: URI Syntax was: Repository

2003-10-30 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
Nick Chalko wrote: ... What should the URI look like The latest URI discussed was http://host/project/version/artifact-[version].ext For example * http://repo.apache.org/org-apache-ant/1.5.1/ant-1.5.1.jar * http://repo.apache.org/org-apache-ant/1.5.1/ant-testutil-1.5.1.jar *

Re: URI Syntax was: Repository

2003-10-30 Thread dion
Nick Chalko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 31/10/2003 08:38:36 AM: Since this is an ASF repo, isn't the ASF project name enough? I think I would still prefix it with apache, so that other organizations can follow our pattern with out conflicts. Also allowing other repositories to host

Re: URI syntax

2003-03-06 Thread Costin Manolache
On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Nick Chalko wrote: Is a mandatory version dir and a optional version suffix on artifacts ok? /project/version/artifact[-version].jar Or ( as is current practice ): /project-version/artifact[-version].jar Again: my main concern with [-version].jar is the lack of