On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 7:18 AM, Trond Andersen <[email protected]>wrote:
> > Given that configuration is already used a lot this will probably confuse > people as you hint towards. Personally I've always considered this to be an > environment thing and internally in our team we always use this term. > Maven's profile term is a bit odd for me because I don't get > an association to environment or application configuration when using build > profile name, but then again - I'm not a CI/build master. This is a term > which Maven people to know and that is a pluss. The environment term might > also be misinterpret as OS environment more than application configuration. > Maybe a shorter version of application configuration could be applicable or > is application configuration too specific? Good terms and metaphors are > always difficult. Not much help here :-) > > In my mind, this is an execution profile. Like Trond suggested, environment is a bit overused and generic. Configuration is also overused (at least by Gradle), so it's out as well. Also, just to be clear, the init script support is not yet in Trunk (unless I missed something). It's close though, maybe tomorrow or Wednesday. Really just needs some more tests, javadocs, and userguide. I wanted to be clear in case anyone was going to try it out. -- John Murph Automated Logic Research Team
