On Thu, 8 Jul 2010 21:29:56 +0200
Meikel Brandmeyer <m...@kotka.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Am 08.07.2010 um 18:52 schrieb Mike Meyer:
>
> > People seem to be confused by the Java namespace convention deriving
> > names from DNS. They think that the names actually have something to
> > do with the domains in question. This isn't the case. Quoting the
> > Java Language Specification "The suggested convention for generating
> > unique package names is merely a way to piggyback a package naming
> > convention on top of an existing, widely known unique name registry
> > instead of having to create a separate registry for package names."
p>
> Hmm… The maven central guys seem to have a different opinion. There you get
> the group-id only if you *own* the domain.
Personally, I trust the inventors of the convention more than people
running a single project. But that begs two questions: how do they
define "ownership" of a domain, and (the question that launched the
thread) what do they suggest people who don't "own" a domain in their
sense do?
> As for your earlier question: renaming a project on fork allows easy
> identitfication of the "official" project. Compare:
>
> vimclojure
> frobnicator
> hotzenplotz
>
> to
>
> de.kotka.vimclojure
> meyers.mike.vimclojure
> kasperle.vimclojure
>
> So which is the original vimclojure project?
But the question wasn't about "original", it was about "official". So
yeah, with one I can identify the original "vimclojure". But I can
also identify the original "frobnicator" and "hotzenplotz"
projects. But neither naming scheme tells me anything about their
relationships, or about which, if any, is official.
<mike
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